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"Oh, James! That feels wonderful. Don't stop." Remus stopped in his tracks when he heard the words spoken in a voice that sounded just like Lily's. He had been headed on his way to the loo, but all thoughts of using it left his head as he looked at the compartment where he was sure the voice had come from. There was no way…
"As you wish Lily." James said. Remus had to slap his hands over his mouth to stop his gasp from being heard. What the bloody hell were the two sworn enemies doing in there?
"James. Lower." Lily said in a voice that was entirely too breathy and with breath so shallow Remus could swear that it wasn't hers. Remus' eyes widened and it took all of his willpower to not swing open the door to see what they were doing.
"Are you sure Lily? I mean, we just started what I guess you could call a friendship. Are you sure you want me to-"
"Either go lower or leave." She snapped at him. Remus heard James pause on the other side of the door. His heart pounded in his chest as he waited for James to answer.
"If you're sure."
"Of course I'm sure." Lily bantered. "When have I, Lily Evans ever been known to not be su- James!" Lily groaned. Remus, positive he could no longer control his body's functions, took off sprinting back to his compartment. When he got there, he opened the door before entering and sitting down. Peter gave him an odd look.
"Remus? Are you okay?"
"No, and if you had just witnessed what I had, you wouldn't be either." Remus responded as he ran a hand through his hair. Peter, who had been lying on his back on the compartment floor, sat up.
"What did you see?" Remus shrugged and crossed his arms as he paced.
"Well, I didn't actually see anything. But I heard it! Man did I hear it!" By this point, Peter had grown impatient with his friend's avoidance of his questions.
"What did you hear, Remus?" Remus took a deep breath.
"I heard James and Lily having sex." Peter's eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"Are you serious?" Remus nodded gloomily.
"Would I lie about something like this?" Peter looked at the ground as he thought this over.
"Isn't this a good thing though? I mean they are finally together. Isn't this what we've been waiting for?" Remus shook his head.
"Well yes, but he's dating Dani. Lily's best friend. Dani will go full Temperantrus mode and completely murder Lily when she finds out." Peter liked confused.
"What do you mean, 'when she finds out?' Who's gonna tell her?"
"Lily's conscious will get the better of her-" Remus started.
"And her want to live will override her conscience. No one's dumb enough to pick a fight with Dani, whether she's transformed or not. I honestly doubt Lily wants to end up in St. Mungos." Remus and Peter both shuddered as they recalled visiting Snape when he had regained consciousness after she had attacked him. It was not something they wanted to relive.
"Prongs will warn her not to tell a soul." Peter continued. "And though she doesn't like him, she'll do it. No one but the four of us will ever have to know."
"Five." Remus corrected. Peter shook his head.
"No four. You, me, James and Lily."
"And when James tells Sirius, it will make five." Remus finished.
"You really think he'll tell Sirius?" Peter questioned.
"Wormtail, does a bird fly? Of course he's going to bloody tell Sirius. James will most likely tell all three of us when we get to his house before making us swear to never tell a soul." Peter nodded an agreement.
"It's a good thing Dani can't read minds. Or we'd all be screwed."
"So what do we tell Remus and Peter happened?" Dani asked as she and Sirius neared the compartment door. The two had been discussing their cover up story for the past couple of minutes, making sure there were no holes what so ever. After exiting the compartment, they had unruffled their clothes, fixed their hair (and in Dani's case, also her make-up) and they had made sure that it was impossible to tell what had just transpired between the two of them. Sirius rolled his eyes, clearly at his wits end with both the questions and the constant reminder of how badly he wanted to drag her back to the compartment for round two.
"Dani, we've gone through it five times. We tell them we went up and down the entire train four times and couldn't find the cart. But we only say so if they ask. If they don't, we don't say a word and enter as if it was normal. Merlin, Dani it's not as if you were the first girl I've had sex with on this bloody train! I think I know how to cover my tracks by now." Sirius said, annoyed by her constant nagging. He kept walking as she froze, causing him to miss her expression sink into one of sadness. When he turned around to wait for her to catch up, she quickly wiped it off and acted as if his comment meant nothing.
'Just like our sex.' Dani grimly thought. 'It. Meant. Nothing.'
"Hey guys! Did you two find the candy cart?" Remus asked when the compartment door opened to reveal Dani and Sirius. The two shared a look and shrugged.
"Nope. Walked up and down the entire train." Sirius said as he flopped down on the seat. "Twice. Didn't find anything." Peter looked sceptical.
"You two walked?" Dani shook her head.
"No. Sirius walked. I rode." Her eyes widened at the double meaning. "On his back!" She quickly corrected. "He gave me a piggy back ride."
"What other kind of ride is there?" Peter said while laughing. The other three joined in, though Sirius and Dani's laughter was just a little too forced. Once they had all quieted, Remus looked at his two friends.
"You walked up and down the whole train?" He asked. Sirius and Dani nodded. "From one end to another?" They nodded in unison once more. "Did you two happen to see anything, or maybe hear anything unusual?" Sirius arched an eyebrow.
"No." He said while looking his friend up and down. Dani sat back in her seat and crossed her arms. Remus nodded and licked his suddenly dry lips.
"Oh, okay. Just wondering, is all." He said while looking down in his lap and twiddling his thumbs. He could feel the sting of Dani's sharp glare on him. Suddenly, the temperature in the compartment rose ten degrees.
'Crap.' Remus thought. 'Why did I open my mouth?' Remus thought, mentally kicking himself for being so stupid. Peter, who was seating on the seat with Sirius, reached into the collar of his shirt, trying to breathe.
"Remus?" Dani quietly called. "Is there something you're not telling me?" Remus, who was now sweating, continued to stare at his hands.
'Please don't let her be getting angry. For the love of all that is sweet and just in this world, please do not let her be getting angry.' Remus silently pleaded. When he finally looked up, he saw that his pleas had fallen on death ears. Her skirt, which moments before had been a light blue, was now blood red. Her black boots were also a vivid red. As Remus' eyes ranked over her, he saw that the red in her hair was still rising as was the heat in the room. 'Damn.' He thought. 'Why'd I have to go and say that?'
"Remus," Dani called yet again. "Is there something you're not telling me?" Remus averted his eyes and looked down. "Remus? Where are Lily and
James?"
"At the front of the train." He answered in a quiet voice. Dani nodded and slowly stood up, before calmly walking out of the compartment. Sirius, Remus, and Peter exchanged glances before quickly exiting the compartment.
"Dani, think about this." Sirius said. Dani feigned innocence.
"Think about what, Black? I simply want to see my boyfriend and my best friend."
"Want to see them or want to kill them?" Peter asked. "Because you're still turning red." Dani stopped at his comment and closed her eyes while taking a few deep breaths. The red in her hair began to shrink, as well as the red in her clothes. When it was completely gone, Dani opened her eyes and began to walk once more.
"See? I'm fine. And as long as the two of them aren't doing anything inappropriate, they will be too." By this time, the four had reached the compartment and they could hear muffled sounds from inside.
"It's James." Remus said. "James snores. He's most likely asleep." Dani was about to add a side comment, when a sound from inside distracted her.
"James!" Dani glared at the door.
"If James is asleep, why is Lily moaning his name?" Dani asked through gritted teeth.
"She's asleep too?" Sirius offered weakly. Dani rolled her eyes before yanking the door open.
Lily and James turned to see the door open and reveal their four friends. Both turned bright red and James jumped off of Lily's back.
"Dani! Guys! Wha-what's up?" James stuttered. Lily jumped off the floor and ran her hands over her clothes, before running them in her hair.
"Dani, I swear this is not what it looks like." Lily quickly said, trying to reassure her. Dani crossed her arms and looked back and forth between the two.
"You," She said while pointing at Lily. "Weren't sleeping with him?" She said while pointing at James. Lily quickly shook her head.
"No. Not at all."
"And you," She said while pointing at James. "Weren't sleeping with her?" She said while pointing at Lily. James stepped forward and rubbed his hands up and down her arms.
"Dani, you know me. I don't cheat on my girlfriends. I have the decency to break up with a girl if I want to date someone else." Dani arched an eyebrow. "Not that I'm planning on breaking up with you for anyone else anytime soon. Cause I'm not." Dani stepped back out of his reach.
"Then why was Lily on the floor and why were you on top of her?" She asked her voice completely impassive, Sirius, Peter and Remus watching on in complete silence.
"Well, when I went looking for the candy cart, I ran into Lily and she was crying. So I told her about Brittany and I comforted her. And then she told me how tense she was, and I offered to give her a massage but in order for it to be done right, she had to be lying on her stomach, and that meant the floor." James quickly explained. As he told her he watched her expression and her attire carefully. When she had entered, she wasn't red, and she wasn't red now either. James exhaled in relief. She wasn't going to kill them.
"Is this true, Lily?" Dani asked.
"Completely. I'd never try to take your boyfriend, Dani. I wouldn't do that to you." Dani nodded and grinned.
"Good. For a second there, I was afraid I'd have to kill you both." Dani said while laughing before turning serious once more. "Seriously. Don't ever give me that option."
"Lily! I'm so sorry! Your parents were some of the nicest people. They deserved better." Lily inhaled Miranda Carlson's perfume as she was gripped into a tight bear hug. Lily stepped back and sent her a weak smile.
"Thanks Miranda. For taking me in and everything. I hope I'm won't be a burden." Waken Carlson, who had been pulling the girls' trunks off the train, dropped them and walked over, waving his hand as if shooing away the statement.
"Lily, you haven't been a burden since the day we met you and I don't think you will start being one now. Besides, this way Dani will stop complaining about how she never gets to see you in the summer because you'll be in the room next door."
"Dad, why is it that every time I come back from school, the first thing I hear is you insulting me?" Dani said as she walked up to the trio, with James and the rest of the boys in tow. Waken shrugged.
"Because you're my daughter and it's my job to keep you as level headed as possible." Dani rolled her eyes before hugging him and giving him a kiss on each cheek.
"Hello boys." Miranda said.
"Miranda." The boys chorused back. Sirius stepped forward and bent down to kiss her hand.
"How are you today? Did you lose weight, because you look amazing." Miranda rolled her eyes and pushed Sirius, but giggled all the same.
"Still the same old Sirius." She said causing the boy in question to smirk.
"Would you still love me if I wasn't?" Waken, who had been watching the whole exchange in silence, finally stepped forward.
"Hey, watch it Black. That's mine." Miranda rolled her eyes.
"Peter, Remus, your parents are outside and they said that first thing tomorrow, you'll be apparating to James' house." Peter and Remus nodded in understanding. "Waken, go get the bags from where you dropped them." Waken went over to retrieve them, when Dani stopped him.
"James will get mine, Daddy." Both James and Waken turned to stare at her.
"He will?"
"HE WILL?" Dani turned to glare at her boyfriend.
"Yes. He will." She said through clenched teeth. James rolled his eyes before bending over and doing as she said. Remus and Peter snickered behind him.
"Hey James, how does it feel?" Remus asked. James arched an eyebrow.
"What?"
"How does it feel to be completely whipped?" Peter explained as the two tried to hold in their laughter. Miranda stopped them before it got ugly.
"Alright, that's enough." She said as she wrapped an arm around Lily's shoulders. "Let's go home, shall we?"
"So which one do you want?" Sirius asked. They had arrived in front of the Carlson's and Potter's humble homes. Both had four levels: an upstairs, a downstairs, a basement, and the attic/loft. Both homes had spacious backyards, and were designed to look just like the muggle houses around them. In between the two houses stood a giant oak tree, the branches stretching from one window in James' house to another in Dani's. James and Sirius were standing outside of the car, in front of the two houses. On the drive over from King's Cross, Lily and Dani had both fallen asleep and the girls had looked too peaceful to disturb by waking them up. While Dani's parents took all four teenagers luggage, the boys contemplated how they were getting the girls in the house. James shrugged.
"We could draw straws." He suggested. Sirius thought about it for a moment before shaking his head.
"That would require us to enter the house, enter a closet, choose straws, and then come all the way back out here. That's just wasting energy." James arched an eyebrow.
"Black, are you sure it's not due to the fact that you're incredibly lazy?" Sirius shrugged.
"That could be it. So what do we do?" James thought for a few seconds before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a piece of parchment and a pen. He then proceeded to rip the parchment in half.
"On this piece of parchment, I'll write Lily's name, and on this one, Dani's. I'll throw both pieces in the air and we each grab one when I say so." James narrated as he did the actions. Sirius nodded.
"That seems fair." James crumpled up both pieces of parchment till they were paper balls.
"Ready?" He asked. Sirius nodded. "Okay. On my count. One." He held a piece of paper in each hand. "Two." He threw them in the air. "And now." As the balls fell, he and Sirius both scrambled for one. Sirius opened his first before grinning.
"Looks like you got stuck with Evans, mate." Sirius said as he showed James Dani's name on the paper. James looked down and saw Lily scribbled on his own piece of paper. It took all his willpower not to jump up and down in utter ecstasy, and to keep his facial expressions in check. When he looked up at Sirius, he put on a fake frown. Sirius clapped him on the back.
"Don't worry mate. I'll take good care of your girlfriend." James glared at his fellow housemate.
"Watch it, Black. And when I say it, I mean your hands. They have a bad reputation of wandering places they shouldn't be." Sirius was about to make a remark, but after thinking about what had occurred earlier on the train, he decided to keep his mouth shut. Sirius walked around the car to the other side, where Dani was closer to the door. He reached in, and ever so gently, picked her up in his arms and pulled her out of the vehicle. When she was out of the car, he looked up, to see that James had done the same with Lily. The two boys walked up to Dani's front porch steps, where her parents had been watching with small smiles on their faces.
"Well don't just stand there." Waken said when James and Sirius stopped in front of them. "Take them to their rooms. I know for a fact that the two of you know how to get there."
"And your trunks are already next door." Miranda reminded. "So, will you two be leaving through the front, the fireplace, or the tree?" As James and Sirius ascended the stairs, they shared a look.
"Tree." They both replied. The two adults chuckled.
"Should I have expected anything different?" Miranda questioned to herself.
"Well good night boys. See you in the morning."
"Night." They chorused before returning to carefully walking up the stairs, taking extra precaution to not disturb the sleeping girls. When they were out of ear shot, Miranda sighed.
"I just don't get it." Waken quizzically stared at his wife.
"Get what?"
"Our daughter and why she's dating James. Didn't it always seem like she'd end up with Sirius?" Waken shrugged.
"I guess so. But James is just like him. Only difference is that James probably is a little more level-headed." Miranda shook her head.
"It just doesn't feel right." Her statement caused her husband to arch an eyebrow.
"Are you going to tell your daughter who she can and can't date?"
"And have her chew my head off? No thank you. All I'm saying is the chemistry between her and Sirius is stronger than that among her and James. Besides, her dating your best friend is such a teenage cliché." Waken laughed at his wife's last statement and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Sometimes I think raising a boy would've been easier." Miranda nodded thoughtfully.
"Do you want to find out?"
"Should we put them in their beds?" Sirius asked when they had reached the second floor. James arched an eyebrow as he pushed against the door of the room Lily stayed in while she was at Dani's house. Luckily, it was slightly cracked open, so all he had to do was push on it lightly. Dani's bedroom door was the same.
"How else are they supposed to get there, Black?" James rolled his eyes as he spoke. Sirius shrugged.
"Should we tuck them in as well?" Sirius asked sarcastically causing James to glare at his best mate.
"Black, I swear if your hands go anywhere they shouldn't-"
"You'll cut off my bits and sell them on the black market? James, I know my limits. Dani's one of my closest friends and I wouldn't want to ruin that." James appraised him silently, before giving a slight nod of his head. He then entered Lily's room. The summer after their third year, while Lily's parents went on vacation with Petunia and her boyfriend, Lily had stayed over at Dani's house, and the spare bedroom had been dubbed as hers. The walls were even painted a light green to match her eyes. Within the green, were sparkles so that no matter where you looked at it, it shined. And due to Lily's current housing arrangement, the room was officially hers.
Her closet was already storing the clothes she had left at Dani's house over the years, and the few outfits that had been found on site at her parents' house. She would have to go shopping for more once she was more settled in, James figured. He gently deposited her on the bed, taking extra care to avoid having her lie down on her hair. He then slowly untied her trainers and placed them at the foot of her bed. He covered her with the strategically placed blanket and stood watching her in silence. He ran a hand through her hair and smiled when she sighed in content. It was so simple. She was right there. All he had to do was lean in...and kiss her. She was in deep sleep. It'd be impossible for her to tell who had done it. Now if he could only force his spine to do the work of his heart...
In the room next door, Sirius was contemplating the same thing. He, like James, had removed Dani's shoes and had made sure to bury her under her sheets. He looked around the room, to keep his eyes off of her. Her walls were a mixture of a bright red and black, like most of her things. On her ceiling were the painted eyes of a tiger, and underneath was Dare-Devil Dani. A door across the room conjoined hers and Lily's bedrooms and a door next to it stood Dani's bathroom. In a far corner of the room, sat Mike's cage, and Mike was securely in it, sound asleep. Behind the cage was Dani's closet, and the door residing next to it, was Dani's storage. There was also a fireplace with a small bag upon its mantle. James had an identical in his own room. Sirius' eyes averted to her carpeted floor, taking a few seconds to observe its softness, as he did every time he saw it. After a few more seconds of stalling, his eyes finally returned to Dani, to see that she had curled up in a ball within her bed, and appeared to be trying to absorb the fragrances of her sheets by rubbing her face in them in delight. Sirius watched her for a few more moments before running a hand through his hair.
This was not good. This was not good at all. At first, he could brush off his feelings for Dani as brotherly. Then they evolved into a small crush. Now he had without the slightest doubt fallen in both love and lust with Dani. It took all his strength not to get in the bed beside her and kiss her until he was her only thought. He swallowed harshly and glared at the air as he thought of James dating her. His fists clenched as he pondered on the depths of their relationship. How deep of a level were they connected? They matched each other intellectually, and were clearly physically compatible but what about emotionally? What were they like when they were alone, just the two of them? And what he wanted to know most of all: Had Dani and James slept together? And if so how often?
Sirius began to scowl as he pictured the two together. James touching Dani, James kissing Dani, James making Dani writhe in unadulterated pleasure. Sirius could see James' smirk as he drew out her climax, could picture Dani calling out James' name for all to hear as her nails dug into his back. The bitter taste of jealously rose on his tongue as he imagined them cuddling afterward, both basking in the glow that is post-sex. James twirling a strand of her hair as he told her how amazing she was, how perfect she was, how he loved her. Dani would grin and reply the same. With each new image he conjured up, Sirius just got sicker and sicker. Just when he was about to run next door and kill James, Dani let out a groan that caused him to stop and look towards her.
She tossed and turned for a few seconds before finally coming to a comfortable stop on the opposite side of that which she had started on. Sirius sighed once more. This was really not good.
'Do it.'
'Don't you dare.'
'Do it!'
'No! Don't!'
'You know you want to...'
'If he wanted to sleep with Snape would he do that as well?'
'Of course not! Why would he ever want to sleep with Snape?'
James groaned and ran a hand through his hair. He'd been standing over Lily and watching her sleep for the past ten minutes. During that time period, his logic and his heart had been having an argument on whether or not he should lean in, or just walk away.
'You're dating Dani. If you were to kiss Lily right now you would be cheating on her.'
'No he wouldn't! The whole reason he started dating Dani was to get Lily! Don't you remember?'
'But he's slowly beginning to fall for Dani!'
'No he's not!'
'And how would you know?'
'Oh, I'm sorry, but the last time I checked I WAS HIS HEART! Sure Dani is gorgeous and perfect and warm and everything James could ever possibly want, but she'll never have that fire that Lily has. That passion that's as alluring as her hair. So soft and silky...Besides what makes you think he's falling for Dani?'
'Well even if he's not, he should! They're perfect for each other, as Sirius has pointed out before. They know everything about each other and they couldn't be closer if they tried.'
'But that's such a stereotypical cliché! The two best mates who had known and lived next to each other all their lives falling for each other? Could you please just be a little creative than that?'
'Me? What about you and how you went and made him fall for his enemy? If that's not the biggest load of BS then I don't know what is!'
'Oh shut up!'
'No! You shut up!'
"I wish you both would shut up." James muttered under his breath and closed his eyes. Was his logic right? Had he slowly began to fall in love with Dani? Sure she had always been there and yeah, he could tell her anything and without a second's hesitation he would kill anyone who even thought about harming her, but did that mean he was in love with her?
James thought back to all the good times they had had, and how it never seemed as if there was an awkward moment when they were together. He smiled when he as he thought of his favorite Temperantrus. How she was always in a good mood, how she always smelled nice even after a muddy Quidditch practice, how soft her skin was when he touched her, and how she understood him like no one else did.
When Brittany had been murdered, he had contemplated suicide and he had been so lost and confused. He didn't feel like he could tell the guys because he thought they'd think he was crazy which would only make him feel even more isolated and alone. So he ran to Dani. She didn't say much. She just held him while he cried, rubbing his back, and slept in his bed with him for a week so he wouldn't feel as if he was alone. When it was time for the funeral and she had decided to stay at Hogwarts, it nearly crushed him. But the fact that she wrote him everyday helped to ease the pain a little. She was everything he could have ever wanted and his parents already referred to her as their daughter. Plus, she didn't look too bad in a bikini. So was his logic right? Had he done the ultimate cliché by falling for the literally next door?
James opened his eyes and stared down at the girl in front of him. His throat locked and all air left him as he gazed at her. She was now lying on her back and her hair was fanned out in a way that surrounded her pale face in a light glow of red, giving her an almost angelic look. His fallen angel. James swallowed harshly. He realized that no matter how much he cared for Dani and how great she was, she could never hold a candle next to Lily when it came to how he felt about her. Dani didn't have the same effect on him as Lily and she never would, even if she tried. His logic could try and tell him all sort of things to get him to believe that He and Dani were meant to be, but he knew that his heart would always belong to the fiery redhead lying in front of him and there was nothing he could do to take it back. If she told him that in order to date her he'd have to jump out of her window right now, he would dive headfirst. And, that was really not good.
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