Well nobody answered me when i asked for your opinion, which made me sad:(. But oh well. Here's a New chapter for you. Please review!!

James just stood were he was for a long time. It was eventually a soft, familiar voice down the corridor that jostled him back to his senses.

"Potter?" He snapped his head to see a confused red-head staring at him as if he had a second head.

"Lily?" he asked her, confused as well.

"But-" she didn't seem to have planned what else to say. "But you-"

"W-what are you doing out of bed?" he asked. This seemed to cause Lily to revert back to her normal self.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." she said accusingly.

"I-" James paused. "I don't remember."

"What?" Lily said disbelievingly.

"Dear Merlin's long silver beard Evans I have absolutely no idea." Lily began to look concerned.

"Potter, we should get you back to bed." she said, walking over to him and guiding him towards the tower by draping her arm over his shoulder.

"Yeah." James breathed, rattled. "So what were you doing out here?" Lily looked stricken.

"Um. I was just patrolling."

"Mmm?" James said. "Don't the patrols turn in a at midnight? It's three in morning."

"Is that what time it is?" she replied curiously.

"Yeah, what are you doing up?" James repeated. Lily tensed.

"Just get going." she said stiffly.

Flashback

Lily opend her eyes and groaned into her pillow. She had been having an impossible time trying to get to sleep. Wondering what time it was, she felt around for her wand on her side table. Gum wrappers. Hair clips. Flip Flop. Bracelet. Mascara. Tie. Clipping from the Prophet. Where the blazes was her wand when she needed it?!

She groaned loudly into her pillow again.

"Lih-ee shut-uh." Mary''s voice grumbled. "Goat beh."

"Can fine m' want." she moaned back.

"Take a pill you three and GO TO BED!" yelled Rose.

"Oh-nee tu uh em." Gab murmured tiredly.

"Can' sleeeeeee." Lily slurred.

"Oh for heavens sake." Rose said. There was a rustle of sheets and a crinkling noise of candy wrappers being unwrapped.

"Jas, Oreo, I don't know how you sleep through this." Rose muttered irritated.

"I don't." Jas said back just as annoyed. A horrible stench filled the room.

"Argh."

"EW!"

"Merlin what is that?!"

"We're just as awake as ever now Rosey, thank you." Gab said snidely.

"My my my. You are not a morning person." Rose said maternally.

"Mornin-ARGH ROSE!" Gab cried.

"I get the feeling that we are all awake then?" Slurred a deep african accent.

"Hey Oreo, nice of you to join us." Rose said brightly but quietly, her voice gliding across the room, but her feet making no sound. "Yes I do believe all of Gryffindor tower is awake."

"AGOOEW!!" Mary screamed. "DAMN! IT GOES IN YOUR MOUTH?!"

"That is typically what pills do, yes." Rose replied. "I take one every night. Being blind does nothing to help your body realize when it's time to sleep."

Lily was filled with dread as she heard Rose's voice come closer to her until she knew that her friend was hovering over her bed.

"Ros-" Lily began, but as she did Rose dropped a pill into her mouth and it fell down her throat. "BLARGH!" she hacked."you eat one of these every night?"

"Mmm." Roses voice swished back over to her own bed. "Now good night!" she said exasperatedly.

"Nightie night." Jas said sleepily. There was soft snoring coming from Oreo's bed.

Lily realized after about five minutes that she still wasn't asleep. In fact, she was even more not asleep than she was when Mary first told her to go to bed. She sighed, and decided that maybe she would take a walk and work off the restlessness that plagued her that night. She pulled back her sheets, careful not to wake her sleeping roommates, and pulled on a thick pair of socks and a warm gray coat her grand mother had made her for her birthday last January.

It was an amazing coat. Very thin wool material, hugged her arms and chest and waist snugly, then fell loosely to the floor. It had a button almost on top of the side seem of the coat, just bellow her waist. This flap of the coat was about three inches long, and the other flap of the coat reached over to that side with a button hole to slide it through. For fashion purposes, her grandmother had added another button near her hip. She found her wand and slid it into one of the coat's near to invisible pockets. She headed quietly for the door, hoping not to wake any of her testy roommates.

"Night Lily." Rose muttered.

She froze for a moment, then hustled out the door. She could practically see Rose smiling in her sleep and suspected that her friend hadn't given her a sleeping pill...

Lily wandered aimlessly for hours. There was no class the next day so she wasn't worried about lack of sleep, and all the patrol's had long since gone to bed, so she wouldn't be punished. Lily vaguely wondered what time it was when she heard a noise behind her. Immediately she took out her wand and whipped around to see...

"Potter?"

The black haired boy turned around and Lily gasped out loud. His robed were dusty, as if he had fallen on the ground, and he had a giant bruise on one of his cheeks. He staggered towards her and she noticed a bottle in his hand.

"Li-ee Imm s'rry." he slurred, and Lily backed away. A very bad smell invaded her nostrils and made her bring a hand over her nose.

"Potter... Potter have you been... drinking?" It was an obvious question, the bottle in his hand, the alcohol on his breath and his slurring and staggering... but she didn't know what to say.

"Im s'rry!" he cried, obviously not hearing her. "I reallee liiiiiik herrr, but I wont date her." he held up one arm and slung the other one over his heart in a promise. "Becaaauuuuse I think I loooooovvve herrr, but I looooooovved you firt, an' I doughn wan tus tuuu fight neemore." Lily backed up a again.

"What's happened to you Potter?" she asked, mostly afraid but also, in the back of her mind, concerned. It was her guilty shame that she liked him, something which she tried to stamp out like a fire because she really want to, but she did. And now here he was, obviously intoxicated, saying these crazy things, and she couldn't help but feel like he wasn't talking to her. He really seemed crazy.

"Arrree weee guuuud?"

"Um." Lily squeaked. "Yes?" James' eyes lit up for second, but then they fell and looked so incredibly sad. They reminded Lily of this poor beaten puppy's eyes she had seen when she was 5 at a shelter.

"Noooooooo weeeeer nott. Yur eyyyyes. Yur eyyyes arre greeeeeenn." he staggered towards her again and she immediately backed up.

"James?" called a voice that sounded like... James. Lily backed up again in confusion. Footsteps echoed in the hall and they were growing closer. Lily saw a figure in the darkness. "James!" it called.

A boy who looked exactly like James ran up to the drunken staggering Potter and froze when he saw Lily. Lily froze when she saw his eyes. They were green.

"AL!" Potter cried in recognition. The boy, Al, was running his hands through his hair and let out a frustrated snort.

"Listen." he said, addressing Lily. "I'm gonna need you to kinda, forget this ever happened. Just like, go back to bed or something, before you get caught you know. This idiot's shouting" he elbowed Potter in the gut "probably attracted some attention."

"Wait-" Lily started.

"I gotta go. This lump is gonna be in some big trouble when we get back home." he dragged Potter back and left Lily staring into space. In the distance, she vaguely heard him say.

"James, what shit did you get into this time?"

End Flashback

Again, I'd love a beta...