Chapter 13: Captive

"You two really make the best couple," Lupin said as he stepped through the fireplace. "It's couples day at the Potter house, at least I brought Peter-the only other single male in the group!" Remus laughed and looked over to the fireplace to see Peter stepping through the fireplace, covered in ash and soot.

"Oye! Mate lets have a go at a Snow Ball Fight!" Sirius spoke loudly over every other conversation that was happening quietly around the room. Lily couldn't help but notice the slightly sly smile that was creeping across his face, "Marauders against the girls…" his smile grew far more mischievous and sly at this. "Winner gets to kiss the loosing teammate, or winning, of their choice." And with that both James and Sirius's smiles began to turn far more sly.

"I need polyjuice potion in order to kiss peter!" Remus joked somewhat at least. "Sorry mate—you know kissing the girls would mean we'd be killed."

Peter laughed, "I'm out, don't want to plat—I'll be the referee!" He smiled, and in almost a perfectly hidden way, he nudged Remus in the shoulder.

"And I'll be the Referee's Referee!" Remus said with a chuckle and made his way to the door. Using his wand, he made two identical forts—they were taller and had more definition than any normal snow-ball-fight fort that Lily had ever seen. They even had more than one level!

Lily grabbed a sweater from the coat-rack before heading outside. When she did leave the warmth of the Potter's home for the snow-ball-fight she had a mind for some 'fun'. She walked over to James in a slow and sultry fashion, a slightly sly smile toying at the corner of her lips. When she reached him she leaned in and "We are going to beat you!" She whispered it in a way that would leave any sane person dumbfounded—but James, wasn't exactly normal. James was James, and that was really the only way to describe him.

"I propose an Idea" James said swiftly grabbing Lily's arm, in a firm, but not aggressive fashion. "Lets be able to take captives." When James said this Sirius began to laugh. Lily began shaking her head furiously—trying desperately, well, not so desperately to pull her arm away from his.

"I second that Idea," Sirius said with a broad smile, "Lets call Ms. Evans, the first Captive—and James, you'll be the guard of course!" Sirius smiled slyly and looked over the fort to where Laura was now walking slowly too.

Lily stopped her foot and tried to squirm her way out of James's grasp. "Nice Try Lily," he chuckled leaning in and kissing her, pressing his hand on the small of her back and moving slowly forward at the same time—causing both to fall on top of eachother on the snow covered ground.

The game had begun and Lily was being held captive. Brilliant,James was still guarding her—well lying on top of her more like it. "I'm not going to move Potter—I know you'd attack me if I tried to run." Lily spoke quietly, she felt slightly squished being pressed under his strong body.

He moved from on top of her, not letting go of her waist he pulled her up into a standing position in his arms. Pulling her slowly forward and into the warmth of his body. "Lily, you are perfect." He said with a whisper of hot breath upon the skin of her neck.

"James!" Lily gulped looking up into his eyes—his perfect hazel eyes. Lily smiled jumped up, clinging her arms around his neck, her legs circling his waist. "I lo--"

"Potter!" A silken—too perfect—voice came from the road. Looking towards the voice Lily saw a tall girl with long-silky ebony hair and bright emerald green eyes. She was waving at them, smiling brightly and looking somewhat flirty? "Who is this?" She said walking up to them. "I'm Emily, Emily Winters," she smiled in a kind way that concealed her true snide attitude to Lily.

"Hey Emily," James smiled in a very nervous and tense fashion. Lily quickly got off of him feeling somewhat out of place in the whole reunion factor of the day. "This is Lily," he smiled softly at Lily, pulling her closer to him—almost protectively.

"Lily eh? She's the one you told me about last year at the Holiday Theatre production of 'A Christmas Carol'" She smiled in far more of a snide fashion than before—she wasn't really hiding the fact that she seemed to loath Lily.

James nervously ran his hands through his hair and put a firm hand on Lily's shoulder, "Yeah this is Lily." The girl looked over to Lily once more, her upper lip curling into a look of disdain and utter loathing, it would have been hidden to any guy around they would have thought that she was just 'scoping' her out, they wouldn't know that she had already scoped her out all along and was now expressing her unabashed loathing.

"Your just as he described you!" She smiled, "James, was my childhood friend even before he went off to school! Our families have always been very close" she put some extra weight on the word very, seemingly trying to scare Lily off. It wasn't working, not as of yet. "You now this guy never stopped talking about a girl from his school named Lily Evans—you know at first he said you were a pain and that you really knew how to peeve him off! But I could tell he really like you—mainly because every time he said your name he'd pause for a second or too—almost like he were letting the name sink into his mind…like he were trying to capture the essence of your name!"

Lily began to blush as soon as Emily began to speak about the past and mainly about first year. "First year?" She shook her head and laughed softly, Emily smiled at Lily before turning abruptly to James to say her final words.

"Are you going to come to the Holiday Party Potter?" She asked raising her eyebrows somewhat—trying to pull of the sweet, and sensitive puppy face off on James. She blinked slowly, staring into James's eyes in a sultry fashion—the look made Lily's blood boil with Jealousy. It wasn't fully-fledged jealousy; it was more the green embers of a fiery jealousy soon to incarcerate her world in 'green'.