A/N: Thanks for all of your reviews! I know its been a while, but I've had serious writers block, but here it is. And ya'll know that I don't own it - no matter how much I wish I did.

New Beginnings

They were still staying with Sirius and Remus – neither James nor Lily really wanted to go back to their own apartment, and the guys couldn't blame them. They had only gone back to get necessary things and were looking for a new home to buy.

Lindsay's funeral was very small. In fact, the only people who knew of it were Lily's mum, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Alice, Frank, Dorcas, Elizabeth, Marlene, and Dumbledore. Josefine knew as well (through Peter) but had made up some excuse so she wouldn't have to go.

They buried Lindsay next to her parents; somehow, it was fitting. By the time the day of her funeral came, four days after her death, Lily seemed to have fallen into some kind of trance. She no longer cried hysterically, but silent tears seemed to leak from her emerald green eyes. The entire day of the funeral seemed to past in a depressing blur. Looking back on it, the whole day seemed like a nightmare. But the one thing she clung to that day was James. She couldn't have walked through the cemetery if he hadn't been holding her upright. Lily knew that James was going through more then she was – after all, James had lost his parents – but the fact that he was still strong for her despite everything he was going through gave Lily strength.

Unlike Lindsay's funeral, Daniel and Marie Potter's funeral took much longer to plan. Everything went into much deeper detail, and not just because of the funeral itself. A few days before the funeral, some one from the Ministry had come to James and Lily to go over his parents' will. There really wasn't a whole lot to it – as James was their only son, he got everything from their vault and their house – but after words, he felt beat. Somehow, it seemed so final.

000

James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Elizabeth, Alice, Dorcas, and Peter were sitting around Sirius and Remus's apartment, no one saying a word. They had just come back from burying James's parents. If two hundred people didn't show up, no one did, Lily thought as she stared at the floor. It seemed like the most Ministry had come, not to mention the entire Order of the Phoenix and many of their fellow classmates as well. Lily didn't know hardly any of them, and James didn't seem to know many more than her. Many of them said the same thing, "Terrible, absolutely terrible," or "What a shame,".

But however horrible that day was, like all others, it did come to an end.

000

About two weeks later, James and Lily were laying around Sirius and Remus's apartment, searching through The Daily Prophet and a few Muggle newspapers that were spread across the living room floor for houses that were for sale. Sirius was out on a date with some long legged brunette and Remus was with Elizabeth. Needless to say, they didn't expect either of them back for quite a while.

"How bout this one," said James as he showed the ad to Lily, "Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, large family room, just outside of Hogsmeade."

She carefully looked at the picture. "The yard is pretty small," she said as they kept looking through the newspapers.

Eventually, they found a few houses that they wanted to see, and were talking about when they could see them, when Remus came in.

"Hey Remus," said Lily, but when she turned to look at him, she noticed that he had a dumb sort of smile on his face. Apparently, James noticed as well.

"What's up, Moony?" he asked his friend, his voice filled with concern.

"Yeah, I'm alright," Remus replied softly. "Its just...well, I went over to my parents house for lunch, and, just out of the blue, I realized that I want to marry Elizabeth."

Lily's eyes widened and James gave his friend a knowing smile and said, "Well, it's about time! So did you ask her tonight?"

"No, but when I told my parents, my mum gave me my grandmother's engagement ring." He put a hand into his robes and pulled out a silver banded ring with a good sized diamond in the middle, surrounded by smaller ones.

"It's beautiful," Lily said quietly.

Suddenly they heard a faint pop from the kitchen as they turned to see Sirius.

"What's up guys?"

"Well, Remus has some interesting news," said Lily, grinning widely.

"And what's that?" Sirius replied

"I'm going to ask Elizabeth to marry me,"

"Well, it's about time!"

000

Over the next week, Remus grew more nervous over the prospect of having to propose to his girlfriend. He talked to James about his nerves, as he was the only one of them to have proposed, and James would tell him how nervous he had been before he asked Lily to marry him. "But you've just gotta take a deep breath and do it – kinda like ripping a band-aid off." He would constantly reassure his friend.

Meanwhile, James and Lily kept up the search for a new house. In four days, they went through three houses, and they didn't like any of them. Finally on a Saturday, they were supposed to meet with a Muggle realtor to look at a few houses in a small Muggle town just north of London. Both James and Lily were on pins and needles all day because Remus was suppose to propose to Elizabeth.

Lily and James apparated just outside the first house a little before noon. It was a large, two story brick home made Lily's jaw nearly drop.

"Wow," she said barely above a whisper as she and James started to walk up the paved drive.

"It's huge,"

"It's not as big as your parents' home, though,"

Lily looked around at the other homes that surrounded the one they were looking at. They all seemed to have the same amount of land, where all big and well kept. Two of the surrounding homes looked as though they had children living there as well, judging by the play swing sets and plastic playgrounds.

They heard a car driving down the road and turned to see who they were pretty sure was their realtor parking next to the house. Once he stepped out of the car, they saw he was wearing a navy blue suit and tie and carrying a briefcase. He was an older man with salt and pepper hair with a kind smile. As he approached James and Lily he said, "Ah, and you must be the Potters. My name is Walt Glasgow."

"Hello, I'm James and this is my wife, Lily,"

"It's very nice to meet you two. So, let's go ahead and go inside."

James and Lily followed Walt into the house as he asked, "So, how long have you two been married?"

"Nearly four months," Lily answered as the realtor unlocked the front door. They stepped into a beautiful foyer.

"Now, if you will just follow me, I'll show you around."

It was a beautiful house. The first floor had a large living room – complete with a brick fireplace – big kitchen and dining room, bathroom, utility room, and two-car garage – though they probably wouldn't use that. The second floor had another bathroom, a walk in closet, three bedrooms, and a master bedroom connected to a huge bathroom that had a jacuzzi tub and glass shower – both large enough to easily fit two people.

Once down stairs, Walt turned to the young couple and asked, "Well, what did you think?"

Lily glanced up at James, a huge smile on her face and whispered, "I love it,"

James smiled too. "We'll take it,"

"Don't you want to see the other homes?" He seemed shocked that they would make such a decision so fast.

"Yeah," Lily and James smiled.

000

After about an hour or so of going over paper work for buying the house, James and Lily finally apparated back to Sirius and Remus's apartment where they found Sirius nearly pacing the floor.

"No sign of Remus yet, huh?" asked James.

"No," Sirius replied, sounding slightly worried.

"Where you like this when James proposed to me?"

"No," said Sirius, trying to sound put together, but when James and Lily gave him doubtful looks, he shrugged and mumbled, "it was worse," under his breath before changing the subject. "So how was the house hunting?"

"We bought one," said James casually as Sirius's eyes widened and Lily laughed.

"Are you serious?"

"No, you're Sirius."

"Ha, ha, like I haven't heard that one before...so what's it like?"

James and Lily started to describe the house – their house – when an owl began to tap on the window. They immediately recognized the owl as Elizabeth's and Sirius began to read the note before the owl was even out the window again.

Suddenly, he started to laugh.

"What's it say?" Lily asked.

Regaining his composure slightly, he began to read, "She said yes, but don't expect me back soon,"

"YES!" Lily screamed, "I knew it!" She threw her arms around James as he returned the hug.