A/N: Well, I just posted the prolog to this story about 10 minutes ago, but I'm really in the mood to write! Besides, with the prolog by it's self, the story's not that great, so I shall add some more!!! Well if you read the prolog, you know that it was told in lily's POV. Well, it's not going to be like that for the rest of the story, but the last chapter might be in James' POV, I'm still not sure. Well thanks for reading, I hope you like this chapter!!!
Disclaimer- OMFG I 4GOT 2 PUT THIS ON THE LAST CHAPTER!!! Please forgive me, let this one count for both chapters. I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER!!! What you don't recognize is mine; everything else is J.K. Rowling's.
Chapter One- The 1,000th time
James Potter woke up on what appeared to be a perfectly normal Tuesday. But for him, it was a special day. It was only six o'clock, and why would anyone want to wake up at six o'clock on a Tuesday? (Unless you were Moony, who happened to be up on this fine Tuesday morning)
Speaking of Moony, he looked up from the rather interesting book he was reading to see what was going on. What he saw almost made him pass out.
"You're…you…James?" he asked the person who looked remarkably like James Potter, one of his best friends. But how could it be James, it was six o'clock, on a Tuesday morning!!!!
"Yes, my chipper little wolfy?" the clone-James answered.
"Wh-who the hell are you, imposter, and what have you done with my best friend?" Remus asked, pulling out his wand.
"Why, it's me Moony ol' pall!!" said James. He seemed to be unaware that it was six o'clock on a Tuesday morning!
"I … I don't believe you!!" Lupin replied. "Answers my three questions, and I'll believe it is you."
"Ummmmm…sure" said James, still utterly confused.
"Okay, umm," Remus was trying to think of three good questions. "What did you, Peter and Sirius do, starting second year, and why did you do it?"
he asked. That was a question that only the Marauders would know.
"That's simple," James said, "We started trying to become unregistered animagus," he said, "Which we now are, and we did it because of your furry little problem."
Remus nodded, even though he didn't directly say that he was a werewolf, James was the one who came up with 'furry little problem.'
"Okay, next question," he thought hard again for a suitable question, "What is the significance of the phrase , 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good?'"
"It's the password that shows you the Marauder's map." He replied with a smirk on his face, "I, of all people, should know. I came up with that."
Remus nodded again. Next was the hardest question. Only the real James would know this one. "What," Moony started, "is the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of the colors red and green."
Now, this question isn't hard at all, most people would think of Christmas, right away, but not James. James would automatically think of-
"Lily," he said, starting to daydream, "for her flaming red hair and beautiful green eyes…" now he was is 'Lily-Land' as his fellow marauders liked to call it.
"Correct!" Remus shouted, "I now know that you are not an imposter, that you are, without a doubt, James Harold Potter!" Moony said, sounding very much like some muggle game show host.
"Yea, and why wouldn't I be me?" James asked, still confused as to why his friend thought he was an imposter.
"James, you do realize what day it is, don't you?" Remus asked, looking worried for his friend's sanity.
"Yes, today is the 21st of September, year nineteen hundred and seventy seven." (A/N: I don't know if I got the year right, but if you do know what year it would be, please tell me!) He replied, with a huge smirk on his face. "A very important day to me, Moony."
"No, James," he said. Now he was really starting to worry. "I mean its Tuesday." He said, looking for some sign of comprehension to appear on his buddy's face, but saw none. "And you woke up at bloody SIX AM!!! Are you CRAZY!!!"
"Well, how is that crazy?" James asked. "You were up already, weren't you?
"Well…for me that's…what I mean is….THIS IS YOU WHERE TALKING ABOUT HERE, JAMES!!! AND YOU DON'T GET UP ANYWHERE NEER SIX O'CLOCK!!!!!" His friend yelled in reply.
"But you, my furry little friend, don't know what today is," said James, with a huge grin on his face.
"Yes I do, James," Remus said, "But I'm not sure that you do."
"Today is the day, Remus," said James.
"What's special about today?" he asked.
"Today is the day that I will ask Lily Evans out…" but Remus cut him off.
"You do that everyday mate," his friend said, laughing.
"You didn't let me finish my sentence!!" James wined. "The full sentence is 'Today is the day that I well ask Lily Evans out for the 1,000th time!'" he said, smiling.
Remus sighed, "And that's a good thing?"
"Yes! It is," said James. "You know the old muggle saying, '1,000th time's the charm,' or something like that."
Remus sighed again, "No Prongs, it's 'Third time's the charm.'" James' face fell a little when hearing this. "Man, I don't think anyone's been rejected as many times as you have." This statement didn't help James' self esteem. "And the fact that you were counting, kind of scares me."
"Thanks for being so supportive, Moony!" he said sarcastically, "Now I really think I have a chance with her."
Remus instantly felt bad for his friend. "I'm sorry, James. I was only joking, I didn't know she really meant that much to you."
"Of course she does, mate." James sighed, he had to tell someone, and he knew that Remus wouldn't make fun of him. "I think I lo-"
Then they heard someone moving. They turned around and saw that Sirius was starting to wake up. They hadn't realized how long they had been talking.
"Well good morning to you two." He said, still sounding very tired.
"Hey," the other two boys replied. James hadn't finished what he was saying, but Remus understood. Their other friend, Peter Pettigrew woke up soon after Sirius, so the boys changed, and went downstairs for breakfast.
As they were leaving, Remus whispered in James' ear "Good luck."
Lily, Brooke and Pamela were sitting at the Gryffindor table already when the Marauders arrived. Unfortunately for Lily, they always sat together, because her two friends were each going out with one of them, the traitors.
When they came to where the girls were sitting, Remus sat next to Brooke, and Sirius next to Pamela. Peter was nowhere to be seen, claming that he really need to go to the library to finish the potions essay due tomorrow. This left James able to sit next to Lily.
"Hey, Lills," he said, trying to be nice.
"Never," she replied, not so nicely, "call me 'Lills' again, got it?"
"Sorry," he said. They both then continued to eat their breakfasts.
After they ate, they went to their first class, Charms. James wasn't paying attention at all to what the little professor was saying, he was trying to think of a good way to ask Lily out, it was the 1,000th time, it had to be special.
He figured he'd ask her at the end of class, seeing as they had a free period next. So after the bell rang, he walked up to Lily.
"Hey, Lily do you-"
"No." she replied
"I swear, I wasn't going to ask you out," yet he thought.
"Well then what is it Potter?" she asked. Why she was even letting him talk, she didn't know.
"Did you know," he started, "That once I ask you out today, it will be the 1,000th time I have ever asked you out. Isn't that amazing?"
"Annoying is what it is." She said starting to walk out the door. "The fact that you're even counting worries me a bit."
"So I, James Harold Potter am going to ask you, Lily Marie Evans, for, literally, the thousandth time, will you go out with me?" he asked hopefully. By this point, Sirius, Pamela, Remus and Brooke were staring at the two.
"Let me think about this for a second, James." She put on her 'thinking face' and went over her options out loud, "Well, it is the thousandth time… so that must mean something… and god knows I've always secretly loved you all my life…" James was smiling, he was sure she would say yes now. Sirius looked shocked by the things she was saying, also believing that she was finally going to say yes. Both boys, obviously, didn't notice the sarcasm dripping from her voice. However, Remus, Brooke and Pamela looked worried, knowing what was really coming.
"James," she smiled sweetly at him, "my answer to your question is, for the thousandth time…NO!!!" she said before storming off, her friends close behind her.
Remus felt bad for his friend, and Sirius was rolling on the floor, laughing. James just stood there, looking very hurt.
Once Sirius had calmed down a little, he said, "At least she didn't let you down too hard," before he started laughing again.
James turned to Remus and said, "Maybe it should be 1,005th times the charm," trying to make it seem that her rejection didn't effect him the way it did. But Remus saw right through that fake smile.
A/N: Well, there's the first chapter, I hope you like it (I don't really know if it's good or not.) Well in the beginning I said it's like 10 minutes after posting the first chapter, but I started it then, not really finishing it until now. Well please review it will make me happy!! Thanks again for reading!!
