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Chapter 3 here. lemme just do some quick things before you start reading

The Stag and the Doe: thanks for the suggestion! that makes a lot more sense to me :D

This chapter goes to my friend Jazmin. Jazmin if your reading this, your welcome! :D

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3. Accidental friends

Lily woke up at 7 the next morning, barely remembering her dream. She knew the nightmares had begun as usual: the thrashing, the mumbling. But then something different happened. She remembered slowly slipping away, as if she was swaying. Back and forth, back and forth, until her sleep was dreamless. Shrugging, she showered and dressed, then went downstairs for breakfast. Alice and Molly were already there with Alice's boyfriend Frank, talking excitedly.

"What are you all so excited about?" Lily laughed, waving slightly to the Maurauders- minus James for some reason- smiling.

"Since when are you nice to them?" Frank asked curiously.

"Since she went to Hogsmede with one James Potter yesterday." Molly said slyly. Lily felt a blush creep up on her cheeks as Frank eyed her curiously.

"Please it wasn't like that. However it was memorable." Lily launched into an explanation, starting with the episode at the library to James's apology at the pitch. All the while the three sat silently. When Lily finally finished, Molly stood up.

"I'm going to go see what Arthur says. Were dating now you know." Alice scoffed.

"That muggle lover Weasly? I'd love to see what your brothers say." Molly turned pink, clashing with her red hair.

"I don't care what they say, I told them so." Lily watched this exchange between her friends, amused.

"So what are you going to do?" Alice asked as Molly left the table. Lily watched Molly leaving as she spoke.

"I don't know. I can't let Severus hurt me again, part of me knows that. But the other part of me wants to go back to things the way they were when we were children." In her state, she hadn't noticed that James had come in, bags under his eyes, followed by a girl, who was giggling like crazy.

"Who's SHE?" Lily said, when she finally saw. The girl had tanned skin, with brown eyes and brown hair that she kept tied up in a ponytail on the top of her head.

"Why Lily Evans, are you jealous?" Alice giggled.

"No! I just want to know who she is." Lily said rather quickly. She was NOT jealous. That was the second time someone had said that.

"That's Lucy Mcgavin, a sixth year." Alice said as if it was obvious.

"Oh! But I thought she fancied Adam Johnson."

"I did too, but apparently not." James took his snitch out of his pocket and tossed it lightly back and forth nervously, yawning slightly. He hoped Lily didn't notice that there was a girl trailing behind him. Even if she didn't fancy him like he wanted, they were still on their own level of friendship, and he didn't want to ruin that. He quickly glanced at her, not failing to see the angry and confused look on her face.

Bloody hell, she noticed.

James quickly excused himself from Lucy and slid next to Lily.

"What do you want you toerag?" She snapped.

"Its not what you think Evans, I swear." He leaned in close to Lily so he could whisper.

"She's not into me, its Padfoot she's after. I told her I'd introduce them." Lily sighed with relief. Of course it was for Sirius. What girl-besides Lily- didn't have a crush on him at one point. Sirius Black had gray, sparkling eyes and shoulder length dark hair that was always messily covering his handsome, rugged face. He was tall, with muscular arms due to swinging his beater's bat in Quidditch. In everyone's opinion, aside from James, Sirius Black was the most handsome boy in Hogwarts.

"Besides Evans," James said as an afterthought, snapping Lily out of her bemused state. "I only have eyes for you." He winked and joined Lucy once again to walk to the Marauders. Lily watched as James introduced Sirius to Lucy, barely keeping his eyes open.

"How is that possible?" She wondered out loud.

"What?" Frank asked, leaning over to look at the Marauders as well.

"James being tired. He went to bed before me and woke up after me. He should have had a good enough sleep."

"Well there couldve been things that kept him up." Alice suggested. Lily thought back to her dreams, how she swayed.

"Yeah..maybe." Lily continued to stare until Remus caught her eye. He gave her a tired smile. He was pale and translucent, looking as if he might pass out any second. Lily quickly realized how close it was to the full moon. Any day now she was expecting James and the others-since she allowed them to come and use it- to not come back to the common room at night. Instead, they were helping Remus with his problem and keeping him sane. That took a lot of dedication, Lily thought, to go to such lengths to take care of your friend when he is in a state such as that. It was then that she felt a sharp tap on her shoulder.

"Ms. Evans, you and Mr. Potter are to go out into the great hall to supervise the decorating." Proffessor Mcgonagall, the Transfiguration teacher, pursed her lips.

"Yes proffessor." She signaled to James and they stood up, excusing themselves from their friends and following Mcgonagall out of the great hall. James yawned heavily, his eyes drooping and leaning against the wall.

"James!" Lily called.

"Wha-? Oh, sorry Evans, kind of tired."

"How? You went to bed before I did?"

"I couldn't sleep. Besides, I had other things to do." He muttered.

"Like?" James smiled.

"I had no idea you were so interested Evans." He teased.

"Stuff it James." Lily warned.

"Oh Evans, you have no idea how adorable you sound right now." He chuckled.

"True I don't, but you won't sound like anything when I mute you." Lily threatened, pulling her wand out.

"Oy!" James exclaimed, suddenly turning serious. "I protected your arse yesterday, the least you could do is cut me some slack Evans. I thought we agreed a mutual state of friendship." Lily slowly lowered her wand.

"You're right James, I apologize." James nodded.

"It's ok Evans, I forgive you. So," he started, watching some of the prefects hanging garland. "A dear little birdie, or should I say a Molly, told me your birthday was over Christmas break. She even said that you would be able to get your apperating license and do magic outside of school." Lily nodded, reminding herself to kill Molly later.

"That's right."

"Hmm...interesting." James said.

"What's interesting?"

"Nothing nothing."

"James Potter you better tell me."

"Blimey Evans, alright. I was saying its interesting that I'm older than you."

"Whatever." Lily rolled her eyes, smiling. James had been hoping for that reaction. He didn't want her knowing that he had already started formulating a plan. A plan to give her a full wizarding birthday a beautiful girl such as Lily deserved. He already knew what to get her as a present. Well, part of it. Sure he had to skip his lunch break to get it, but Lily was worth being hungry.

Of course, he would need the rest of the Maurauder's help.

Sneaking out of school to Hogsmede was easy enough, but he hadn't resorted to broad daylight to do it before. He would need Moony and Wormtail to stay behind and cause a distraction, then he and Padfoot would sneak into the passageway they had made those many years ago to sneak into Honeydukes late at night. Smiling to himself, he stuck his hand into the pocket of his robes to see if it was still there. James felt a soft piece of silk and sighed contendedly. Good. It was imparitive to his plan that he had it.

"Are you even listening to me?" A voice cut into his thoughts. He smiled at Lily meekly. He hadn't even noticed she was talking to him.

"Sure Evans, 'course I was."

"Mhmm. Right. What were you thinking about anyway?"

"I was wondering if I could perhaps have your adress. So I could write to you over break." He lied. Thought it was truthful, he just hadn't planned on asking her himself. He was actually planning Moony to do it then giving it to him. Lily actually smiled.

"Well James now that we have reached a status of friendship between us, I think I can be ok with that." James grinned at her.

"Great. Now let's finish this Evans I've got things to do."

"Such as?" James grinned again.

"Blimey Evans, since when were you all interested in what I have to do?"

"Since you keep talking about it! I'm starting to get really curious." Lily frowned at herself.

"Well that's something for me to know and you to eventually find out." Lily widened her eyes. "Eventually, what do you mean eventually?" She pestered.

"Sorry Evans got to go!" James said, running off. "What will I know eventually? James!" Lily ran after him whining.

The rest of the week flew by in a blur and before Lily knew it, she was getting on the Hogwarts express going home for the holidays.

"Are you sure you don't want to share a compartment with Molly and I Lily?" Alice asked as they boarded the train.

"Positive. I'd hate being in the same compartment with you and Molly while your slobbering all over your boyfriends. I'll be in the Heads compartment thank you." Lily laughed. She walked down the hall and bumped into Remus, who had a piece of parchment into his hand.

"Hello Remus!" Lily greeted.

"Oh! Hi Lils!" He said, smiling. In the past week, he had recovered immensly, the old twinkle returning in his eyes.

"What's that there? And what are you doing here?" She said, eyeing the paper. Remus quickly hid it behind his back.

"Nothing, just a piece of paper I was writing people's adresses on. Actually I was looking for you. What do you want for your birthday?" He asked her as they strolled through the hall.

"Hm. I'm not sure. I'd like a normal birthday with people for once. Mum, dad, and Petunia are always Christmas shopping." Remus stared at her.

"Your family doesn't stay with you on your birthday? Don't you need to shop too?" Lily shook her head.

"I get my things in the Muggle shop in Hogsmede so I don't go with them."

"But that's awful!" Lily shrugged.

"Ok then, what else do you want." Lily thought.

"Well, there was this really pretty kitten in the store in Diagon Alley. It had eyes like mine, emerald green. Oh! And I also saw this absolutley BEAUTIFUL necklace. It looked exactly like the Hogwarts crest and it had the colors in gems around it. It was fantastic." Lily said, her eyes sparkling just thinking about it.

"That sounds nice. Say, I'm going to use the loo, then I'll come back and we can go sit in the Heads compartment with James and the others." Lily nodded.

"Alright. I'll be patroling in the meantime." She walked back and forth, watching for Remus. At last she saw him returning.

"There you are. Come on let's go." They walked back down the hall and to the Head's comparment which was littered with candy wrappers.

"Merlin James, if your going to let your friends in here, the least you could do is keep it neat." Lily vanished all the wrappers with her wand and sat down next to Remus. James immediatley sqeezed beside her.

"Hulloo Evans." He smirked. Lily rolled her eyes but didn't hide her smile.

"Hi James."

"So my dear flower, what do you plan on doing for your birthday?" He put his arm around her shoulder. Lily shrugged it off and scooted away, slightly disgusted.

"Well, the FIRST thing will be using magic. The second will be getting my appirition license. Then I won't have to resort to muggle transportation for anything. It'll be wonderful." Lily sighed happily.

"I see. So when exactly is your birthday anyway?"

"The day after tomorrow." Lily answered, stealing a chocolate frog from his hand and taking a bite of it.

"Oy! I wanted that." He said, pretending to frown.

"Yes well now I have it." Lily giggled, swallowing it. James made a sound that sounded something like meh, and everyone burst out laughing.

"Oh Prongs, you never cease to make me laugh." Sirius said, wiping a fake tear from his eye.

"Jee, thanks mate." James rolled his eyes.

"So tell me Evans, why aren't you with Alice and that other red head?" Sirius asked, shoving a cauldron cake into his mouth.

"You mean Molly? She's off with Alice and Frank, probably snogging Arthur by now."

"Molly and the Weasly are dating? Shame, she was pretty too."

"But I thought you liked that Lucy girl?" Lily asked curiously.

"Oh right! I should go. I promised to meet her." He winked. "Come on Wormtail, perhaps you can meet one of her friends." The round boy nodded and toddled after Sirius.

"So that leaves the three of us then." James spoke, reaching for another frog.

"Hey James." Lily sang sweetly, eyeing the chocolate frog. He turned, his eyes wide with curiosity.

"What?" Lily snatched the frog and stuck the whole thing in her mouth.

"Nothing." She mumbled, grinning as she swallowed.

"Evans!" James whined. "That's the second time you've done that!"

"Oh well. Your loss James." Lily smirked. James's heart did flips. He and Lily Evans were having a normal, regular conversation. In all their laughter,the three didn't notice that the train had stopped.

"Aww. Just when I was enjoying myself. I should go. See you soon James."

"Yeah, see you in two days!" He called back.

Lily stopped. "James Potter what do you mean by-?" She turned around, but he was already gone. "Damn him." Lily muttered. He probably meant two weeks, yes that was it. James's head was probably spinning at the fact that she talked to him like a human being. She shrugged and stepped off the train to get her things and get home to her family.

Two days later, Lily woke up, yawning. She reached for her alarm.

"Oh wait, I can use magic can't I? Its my birthday" Lily smiled to herself. She took her wand off her bedside table and scilenced the clock. She giggled. It felt odd, using magic outside of school. She quickly shuffled through her clothes and pulled out a green long sleeved shirt and jeans. Pulling them on, descended the stairs of her warm house. Going into the kitchen, she saw that breakfast had been laid out for her. She smiled.

"Thanks mum." She whispered to herself. Taking a sip of the hot chocolate, Lily enjoyed the quiet that was in the house. All of a sudden, she heard a crack, a crash, a strangled scream, and pieces fusing together. Lily raised her eyebrows in confusuion. So much for a quiet house, she thought. She picked up her wand and took the hot chocolate with her into the living room, nearly choking on it after seeing what happened.

"Evans!" James cried and hugged her.

"James?" Lily gasped, putting down the mug and brushing some snow off of his leather jacket.

"In the flesh. This is Snuffles, by the way." James said, indicating the dog that had appeared with him. Lily looked at it. The dog had shaggy black fur and stormy gray eyes. Lily smiled kindly at it and bent down to get face to face.

"Hello Sirius." She said brightly. The dog suddenly morphed into Sirius Black, a bewildered look on his face.

"Merlin woman! How the hell did you know it was me?" He gasped.

"How long have you known it was him?" James asked, curious as well.

"Since the day Remus told me about his problem. He had explained that you two and Peter helped him whenever he turned, and with my personal knowledge I knew that he would go all insane and try to bite you if you were human. But James, don't you know that's illegal? Being an unregistered Animagi?"

"'Course, don't you think we thought of it first? But this is Moony were talking about, one of the Maurauders. He needed our help." Lily smiled.

"That's really...thoughtful of you James. Now," she began, her hands on her hips. "What the hell are you doing here, how the hell did you know which house I lived in, and what the bloody hell is going on!"

"Its alright Evans relax. Jamesie, Moony and I wanted to spend your birthday with you." "

Besides Evans," James noted, rolling his eyes at Sirius's nickname. "Who else but us would take you to get your license?"

"What?"

"Your appirition license. What, you think we'd let you get it by yourself? Not a chance Evans. This is a special occasion."

"Alright, let's go!" Lily exclaimed.

"No no no! Not yet. There's still the matter of your presents."

"Presents?"

"Well, only three of them actually. The others all have theirs with them."

"Three of them?"

"Yes Lilykins, James here has the whole day planned out for you." Sirius said with a grin.

"James you don't have to do this." Lily said as she brought the two Maurauders hot chocolate.

"Oh but he does. Prongsie's been talking about it since Molly mentioned it to him. Am I right?"

"You are." James answered, trying to hide his reddening face into his jacket.

"Anyway, James has been talking nonstop about it, he almost got detention six different times, if you remember. That's all he's been talking about, I couldn't get away to Lucy for five minutes because all he did was babble-honestly its like there was a babbling curse on him. Lily this Lily that-"

"Padfoot!" James yelled, startling Lily.

"Sorry mate." He said with a sheepish grin.

"Now, as I was saying before someone so rudely inturrupted. Before we start on the whole birthday adventure, Padfoot and I would like to give you our presents first. But we need to wait for Moony, he should be here any second." If not more than a second later, a distinctive pop was heard, and Remus appeared next to the other Maurauders, a small cage in his hand.

"Hello everyone! Lily! Happy birthday." He hugged her tightly.

"Thanks. What's that?"

"Its my present for you Lily." He held out the cage. "Go on." Lily opened the cage and a little mewling black and white kitten with emerald green eyes jumped into Lily's arms, purring.

"Oh Remus! Its the little kitten I saw! Oh thank you!" She hugged him and lightly scratched the kitten's stomach.

"Now its my turn!" Sirius bounced up and down eagarly handing her a bag from Honeydukes. "I got you chocolate frogs so you wouldn't keep stealing Prongsie's here." He babbled excitedly.

"Thanks Sirius...uhh James?" She turned to him.

"He had one too many sugar quills. This is what the Maurauders and I like to call Sirius Black's Sugar High." Lily giggled.

"Fun." She said, pausing and turning to James.

"What? You think I forgot? I forgot the birthday of the one I've been in love with since third year? Fat chance Evans. Your present is right here." He said, taking a small box out of his pocket. "I think you forget sometimes Evans," he started, opening the box. "that Moony's a Maurauder as well." He clasped a beautiful silver necklace around her neck. It was the Hogwarts Crest with the house colors in gemstones around the house sections.

"Oh my...James its beautiful..." She turned to Remus. "So when you went to the lavitory you really went to-"

"The Heads compartment yes, James kept nagging me so I went. That's how I found out about the kitten." Lily sat back on her heels before slapping Remus's arm.

"That was for lying and that-" she said, slapping James's arm. "Is for being such a prat. And this-" she hugged each of them tightly, much to James's excitement. "Is for being the best accidental friends ever." Remus flushed. "Except you Remus, you I meant to be friends with." Lily and Remus smiled at each other.

"And me? What about the friendly neighborhood puppy dog?" Sirius whined. Lily laughed.

"Especially the friendly neighborhood puppy dog, Snuffles." Lily hugged him.

"Ready to go?"

"Mhm. Let's do this." She answered confidentley. James wrapped his arms around her waist. "Happy birthday Lily." James whispered, and the four of them dissaperated, Lily holding tight to James.

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"Relax Potter, I only want to give Lily something." Snape snapped. "That's Evans to you. And your not giving her anything." James answered menacingly. "Lily, I wanted to give you this." He handed her a red and gold box with a green and silver ribbon. Lily untied the ribbon and opened the box. "The sneakoscope..." Lily said. When they were children, Snape had a sneakoskope they used to spy on her sister with. "I gave it to you in hopes that we could become friends again. To go back to the way things were." Lily quietly turned the sneakoscope over in her hand. She saw James watching her intently. As were everyone else.

She knew what she had to do.

Cliffhanger! lol. Hoped you guys loved it. remember, I take ALL suggestions into consideration. So hopefully you guys review and I'll post ch. 4 when I finish it

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