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Lily was busy studying for her N.E.W.T's, which were fast approaching. She was a nervous wreck, fearing that she'd fail everything.

"Lily you just have to relax," James told her, giving her a massage as she sat at the desk in her room, several books open in front of her.

"I can't relax! My life is on the line here!" Lily retorted, feverously scribbling away with her quill.

"You life isn't on the line, you can do this Lily," James said in a comforting voice.

"Exams are two weeks away, and I haven't even seen you open a book! Your supposed to take these seriously James, what if you fail or your marks aren't high enough for them to except you in Auror training?" Lily brushed back her hair impatiently.

"I know all the material, I'll study. I know I'm going to pass everything anyway," James shrugged, confident. "You need to relax though Lily, you're driving yourself crazy stressing out about this."

"James I need to study, I have to remember every single fact in the past four years that we learned in Transfiguration." Lily sighed, tired.

"I have an idea, why don't you just take a nap…recharge for a while. Take a break," James suggested, pulling Lily to her feet and leading her over to her bed.

"James I –"

"Don't argue with me Lily, I know what I'm talking about. You've barely slept in three weeks, you've been studying non-stop." James covered Lily with her blankets, and watched with a satisfied look on his face as she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

While Lily slept, she dreamt trouble dreams. She dreamt of a life with James, and she was happy in it. Suddenly the dream turned bad, they were betrayed by one of their closest friends. In the dream, Lilly was panicking.

"What about Harry, James? We can't let the Dark Lord find him!" Lily was saying, picking up a baby and cradling him close to her.

They heard their door being blasted open, and James took Lily by the arms.

"Whatever happens Lily, I'll love you forever," James whispered, kissing her. "Protect Harry," he added, kissing his son on the top of his head. Harry gurgled. James looked at Lily one last time and pushed her into the baby's room, there was no way out.

He closed the door on Lily and tired to fight off Voldemort, Lily could hear them duelling. She was frozen with fear, holding Harry close to her, she kissed his head and set him down in his cradle.

She heard James scream in pain and then a thud, like someone falling to the ground. Tears streamed down her face as the door in front of her was blown open.

"Please, don't hurt Harry," Lily sobbed, as a flash of green light erupted from Voldemort's wand and she felt unbearable pain before it all went dark.

Laughing like a mad man, Voldemort pointed his wand at Harry.

"No!" Lily screamed, sitting up abruptly and panting. She was drenched in sweat and crying.

"Lily, what's wrong?" James asked, alarmed. He rushed to her side. Lily was very pale, her eyes wide with fear.

"Oh James, I had the most horrible dream," Lily sobbed, wrapping her arms around his neck. "I dreamt we were married with a baby and Voldemort came, he killed you and then he killed me and turned his wand on Harry!"

"Hold on, who's Harry?" James questioned, confused.

"Our son, where's Harry?" Lily moaned, shaking.

"Lily, we don't have a son," James told her. "And we're not married, at least not yet anyway."

"One of our closest friends betrayed us," Lily sniffed, her mind still confused with the dream.

"It was just a bad dream," James said, rocking her.

"Don't leave me," Lily whimpered, closing her eyes.

"I'll never leave you," James promised her, kissing her forehead.

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The next morning, Lily woke up in her bed with James sleeping beside her. She didn't remember the dream she had had at all, she couldn't even remember one detail.

She laid back down, facing James. He was still sound asleep, and still dressed in his clothes. Lily ran her hand through his hair as he slept, a small smile on her face. Ok, so he had been right, she did need the sleep.

"Mmm," James groaned, grabbing Lily and pulling her close to him.

"Morning James," Lily giggled. James opened one eye.

"No, night James," he replied, still half asleep. He had spent the night watching Lily sleep, fearing she'd have another nightmare.

"Come on James, wake up…" James moaned and closed his eyes.

"What were you doing last night?" she asked, giggling.

"You don't remember?" James asked, opening his eyes. His voice was husky with sleep.

"No," Lily said, confused.

"You had a nightmare…"

"I did?" she looked confused.

"Yeah…" James trailed off, if she didn't remember it, he wasn't going to remind her. "Something about giant pansies attacking you." He shrugged. Lily laughed.

"Must have been the pumpkin juice," she shrugged. "Well, I'm getting up. We have class at ten and it's eight thirty."

"I'll sleep till nine, see you down at the Great Hall," James mumbled, drifting off to sleep again. Lily sighed and got out of bed.

Half an hour later she was down at the Great Hall eating breakfast with Ellie, Marlene, Alice, Remus, Sirius and Peter.

"Morning James, it's about time you showed up," Sirius yawned. "I've been up for hours, not by choice of course," he sent Ellie a look and she laughed and patted him on the cheek.

"Don't start complaining now," she told him, giving him an affectionate kiss on the cheek.

"I found out something interesting last night," Peter whispered after checking to see that everyone else at their table was involved in their own conversation.

"What was that?" James yawned, stealing a piece of toast off Lily's plate.

"Lucius has this plan of…er, getting in between you and Lily," Peter replied.

"Does he now?" James said, sending Lily a cocky look. "Can you resist Lucius Malfoy's charm Lily?"

"Oh I'll try, but it will be ever so difficult," Lily replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"In any case, we don't know if he's going to use magic to get between you guys or you know, just start stuff. So watch out," Remus said wisely.

"Alright, Lily don't accept any apples or whatnot from Lucius and James, try not to drink any love potion yourself," Sirius instructed, smirking.

"As if I would," she rolled her eyes. Finished her breakfast, Lily pushed her plate away.

"So why does Lucius want to come between us anyway?" James questioned, stealing bacon off Marlene's palte.

"Dunno, must have something to do with the scheme of things," Peter replied.

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Later that night, Peter followed Ledaria around under James's Invisibility cloak at Sirius's suggested. He got into the Slytherin common room by traveling closely behind her.

"Ledaria, just in time," Lucius said as she joined them by the fire. Peter huddled over in the corner, careful to not make any noises. "We were just discussing what Bellatrix told me."

Peter noticed for the first time a head appearing at of the fire. It was Bellatrix Lestrange, Peter recognized her, she used to go to Hogwarts.

"Oh, and what's that?" Ledaria questioned, sitting down beside Lucius.

"There was a premonition," Lucius said. "We can't let James and Lily be together."

"And why should their affairs matter to us?" Ledaria questioned coldly.

"Because they will be the fall of the Dark Lord, we don't want that to happen now do we," Bellatrix snapped. Ledaria stared at her.

"And how is that possible?" she questioned.

"I don't know, but we're not going to risk it," Lucius said. "Now, here's my plan…"

Peter raced into the Gryffindor common room, panting.

"What did you find out?" Remus questioned, setting down the book he was reading. It was only them in the common room now.

"Strange things… Bellatrix's head was in fire… they have plan to keep James and Lily apart," Peter panted.

"What? Slow down Peter," Lily said.

"Bellatrix Lestrange's head was in the fire, and she told them about a premonition. Said they had to prevent Lily and James from being together at all costs, because something about the Dark Lord," Peter repeated slowly.

It sounded familiar to Lily, but she couldn't place her finger on it. James took a deep breath, remembering the dream Lily had had, he felt now was the time to tell them all.

"Last night, Lily had a dream," he started. Lily tossed him a curious look, wondering why he was bringing up her dream of evil pansies. "She dreamt that we were betrayed by one of our closest friends, and it cost us our life's. We died protecting our son, whom Voldemort was after for some reason."

Everyone was silent. Images from the dream she had had came back to her, and all Lily could do was sit there.

"So, one of us betrayed you?" Alice asked, looking flabbergast at the idea.

Lily nodded. "I don't know who, I just remember thinking one of you betrayed us."

"So what's this all got to do with keeping you apart?" Sirius asked, slow on the uptake.

"Our son must have somehow defeated Voldemort," James said, frowning.

"But anyone who Voldemort decides to kill never survives," Remus pointed out. "If you guys died, then what are the chances that a little baby would survive?"

"Hold on, you guys are actually taking this dream seriously?" Lily questioned, frowning. They looked at her.

"It all ties in together Lily, the dream you had, the premonition," James shook his head. "But it still doesn't make any sense."

"So, what's the plan?" Lily asked. Everyone shrugged.

"I don't think we can make a plan, if it's destined," Remus sighed. "I mean, your destined to have a son."

"And have one of our closest friends betray us…but what would they do to betray us?" James questioned, looking thoughtful. Peter shrugged.

"This whole thing is crazy, those Slytherin's are trying far to hard to be Death Eaters, they're jumping to ridiculous conclusions and devising insane plans," he said, sitting down on the couch beside Sirius.

"Then explain why Lily had that dream, and why the Slytherin's are hell bent on keeping us apart?" James demanded, his arm around Lily.

"I can't explain it," Peter shook his head.