DISCLAIMER: sadly I woke up form my dream of owning Harry Potter and this was the best I could do.

NOTES: The next chapters are going to take a bit longer considering they aren't already written and all so be patient and enjoy.

Chained for life

Chapter 6

A week passed and no change had happened. Lily was being as civil as possible to James and James had given up and decided when she really gave it a try so would he. They went to the Quidditch game and Lily only went along because Lizzie reminded her that James had had the girl's night with them. All in all it was an uneventful week and Sirius and Lizzie were getting scared. It was only a week before school started and 3 days before they had to fly back home. They really needed something drastic to happen so they weren't the gossip of the school. But Sirius reminded Lizzie that if that worst comes to worst they had their plan.

Lily had started to see her parents more and they had acted the same way as James's parents thinking that they would get together sooner or later. That night James's parents and were going over to Lily's house for dinner and Lizzie, Sirius, James and Lily were all tagging along. After getting dressed into one of her more dressy strapless dresses and James just had to wear some pants since he hadn't wore a top in two weeks and still couldn't because of chain. Then went and got Sirius from the next room and headed down stairs to wait for James's parents.

"Well this is going to be fun isn't it?" asked James's mum smiling. "Finally meeting the parents of our little guest" she continued looking at Lily.

"Yes it's going to quite strange without you at our house Lily. I have gotten quite use to you here. Like the daughter we never had." Added James's dad, Lily blushed at this.

"Im so sorry about this, but if you want someone to blame/hurt, blame Sirius and Lizzie. They did this" Lily said hinting that she wanted them punished. Mr and Mrs. Potter just smiled and Sirius looked scared.

"Well let's not keep your parents waiting Lily" James said changing the subject. And let Lily lead them out to her house. They went inside and her parents greeted her with hugs and kisses saying how it's been so quiet without her there and then Lily introduced the Potter's. Both families got along well and they went into the sitting room for tea.

"So James, how are you managing? I see your still alive no bruises or broken bones. So that's good." Mr Evans said jokingly to James. James laughed and Lily blushed.

"Dad, im not that bad, seriously" Lily said frowning

"Someone say my name?" asked Sirius. Lily just rolled her eyes.

"Ah Lily but you are, especially when you get mad." James said jokingly but one look at her face told him to stop. "Okay fine you're not that bad…"

"Thank you James, at least someone loves me" she glaring at her dad.

"So Lizzie, Sirius what did you plan when they get back to school ay?" Mrs. Potter asked the couple. The two looked at each other guiltily.

"We sort of didn't think of that. We thought they would be getting on fine by now. We didn't realise we were dealing with two such stubborn people." Sirius said.

"yeah you see we thought by now the showering, eating, sleeping, shopping, parties and what not together would have worked but no. there is about at least three fights a day." Lizzie looked towards Sirius for agreement and he nodded his head and added. "yea you should have seen them the other morning. Lily was over James's shoulder and he was eating breakfast and she wouldn't say sorry so he could let her down, quite hilarious really." They all laughed except Lily and James. This was turning embarrassing fast.

"Okay well lets not talk about that." Lily said quickly." But really what are we going to do if we don't get along until school? Please tell me you wouldn't make me go through that embarrassment Lizzie?" Lizzie just smiled sweetly "mum? Dad?" she said desperately, they just shook their heads.

"Lily really, you shouldn't hold this sort of grudge against this perfectly nice boy. I see nothing wrong with that chain staying on you at school." Lily's Dad said, her mum nodding her head in agreement. Lily just sat there shocked with her mouth hanging open. James was equally as shocked. He looked towards his parents as if asking them the same.

"Yes James the same goes for you." James's dad answered his son's unasked question.

"Dinner should be ready" said Lily's mum suddenly and everyone got up to the table.

They ate dinner and desert and then after Lily's mum asked if anyone wanted more tea and James's parents accepted James and Lily excused themselves to go to bed Sirius said he would stay for a bit longer with Lizzie. So Lily and James made their way to James's room. The walk back was silent and awkward it wasn't until they got to James's room did either say anything. Just as they had finished changing Lily asked suddenly.

"Do you really think they were being serious about making us go to school like this?" Lily asked as if afraid of the answer to come.

"Yes" James replied simply. He knew that they were going to do this and it didn't matter what they said. Their parents were going to make them get along. James was starting to wonder if Lizzie and Sirius had really thought this plan out at all.

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When James woke up he had a strange sense of déjà vu. There was a mass of red hair tickling his face and Lily's head on his chest. He was going to miss waking up to her in the morning when the chain came off…if the chain came off is more like it. Wait…Sirius threw away the key, which meant that there was no way of undoing this. Or was that just an act? Maybe there was a way the chain came off without the key. Hmm.

Lily had woken up and yawned. She snuggled closer to James thinking he was still asleep and wouldn't know that she did it. But she was wrong James saw her eyes open, and her yawn then her snuggle closer to him. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe the chain would come off before school. James started to stroke Lily's hair and Lily's eyes flew back open. She looked up at James and their faces were inches apart.

"Please don't stroke my hair" she breathed.

"It would be my pleasure" James replied in a hushed tone. How many times were they going to be in the position to kiss and not go through with it…? James asked himself. Ah what the heck. He leant down and gave her a kiss and to his surprise Lily was kissing back. It was short and sweet. When they broke away Lily's head was going crazy, all the warning bells were going off and telling her that she couldn't kiss him again. She would fall for him and she did not want that. James was sitting there in awe. He had kissed her! Finally!

"Please don't do that again as well" Lily said a little louder this time and sat up off James's bare chest. James was shocked to say the least. He had expected a slap or something, not a calm reply such as, please don't. he leant back into the pillow and thought about the progress they had made and wondered what Lily was thinking and if maybe, just maybe, it had sparked something, anything other than more hatred.

"Hey my flower--"but James did get much further than that.

"Let's just get this straight James Potter. I am not your flower nor anyone else's flower so don't ever say that again." Clearly agitated James let it go. They showered and went down the breakfast in silence. The tension between the to was so thick you could probably cut it with a knife. Lily pulled James along, purposefully pushing him into the door frames or the railing of the stairs.

"Will you cut it?" James said to the smug Lily standing across him on one of the landings of the stairs.

"no." said Lily simply and pushed against his should to get past knocking the unsuspecting James down the stairs therefore pulling an unsuspecting Lily with him. James landed on the marble floor with a thud and blacked out cold while Lily landed softly on top of him.

"James! James! Wake up!" she yelled noticing he was out. "SIRIUS GET YOUR ARSE DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!" she yelled up the stairs.

"James" she cooed hoping that might bring him back to his senses. She slapped him on the cheek. She smiled "I can slap him without a reason" she thought happily to herself.

Slap, slap, slap on each of his cheeks is what one Lily Evans did. A half asleep Sirius came down the stairs

"who died?" asked a yawning Sirius.

"its James he has blacked out." She replied not taking her eyes off him. Sirius woke up immediately.

"God woman what did you do!?" asked Sirius hurriedly racing down the stairs. "get him to the couch." Sirius and Lily lifted James and walked him to the lounge room to the couch and dressed his head in some bandages and sat there waiting for James to wake up. A few hours had passed and Sirius was getting bored.

"Lily?" Sirius asked

"mm" asked a tired Lily. Her arm was not in the most comfortable position and she really felt like just drifting off to sleep.

"what is it you hate about James so much?" Sirius asked curiously. Lily's eyes opened.

"I don't hate him" she said straight away. Sirius raised an eyebrow

"okay let my rephrase that…why do you dislike James so much?" a smile appeared on Lily's face at her friends antics. She signed. So many reasons…she could just say mind your own business or he would think she didn't have any… "Just pick one that will shut him up" she thought to herself. Well okay the fact that he picks on all the younger kids. No wait, he stopped doing that. um okay the fact he walks around as if he owns the school and he is better than everyone? Darn he stopped doing that to. Ah the fact he bullies people for no reason what-so-ever. Um okay fine he stopped that to. His arrogant jokes and gloating after every game of quidditch. Argh this is so darn hard how come he stopped doing everything?!

You see James had realised that, from everything that Lily yelled out to him every time she refused, that if he stopped doing it she would run out of reasons and BAM she was his. Lily then realised…she didn't dislike James at all. Her eyes widened and all she wanted to do was run out of there. Sirius looked at her face waiting for an answer…he had to get an answer out of this girl.

"Well…you see…it's…um well…" she trailed off.

"That's not a sentence Lils." She shot him a glare. She hated people using her nicknames. "Lily-flower, the thing is maybe you are feeling something towards him and you just don't want to admit it to yourself but to tell you the truth. James loves you a lot and nothing is going to change that and he is going to wait until the day you say yes to going out with him. Take my advice. Give him a go. He isn't that bad, he doesn't bite." Sirius said smiling. Lily was biting her lip, always a sign that she was thinking. She let her shoulders drop and let a large breath out in defeat.

"Fine. Okay maybe your right, but im not saying I like him or anything but how can I not give him a chance?" Lily looked down not wanting to see Sirius's face knowing full well it would look so smug and there would be a rather large grin on it. Sirius picked James up walked him over the couch. He looked at Lily who was looking in another direction clearly thinking. Sirius stood at the back of the couch and dropped James onto it. With James came Lily landing right on top of James. James's eyes opened to Lily lying on top of him.

"You like it on top do you Lils?" he asked with a rather large smirk on his face. Lily just chose to ignore his comment. She let her head rest on his bare chest, to exhausted to move.

"What to horrible come back? No you're such a prat Potter?" James asked again.

"Shut it Potter" was all Lily could muster. Sirius grinned at the two. The chain was really going to work and right now he didn't care if they went to school with it on they would work out their differences and see they were perfect for each other.

A/N Do you think my chapters are long enough? they feel so short. please R & R