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Fearless

Lily woke up, having been lying in James's arms for the past five hours, and looked around her for the first time.

Her arm was back to normal, she no longer felt the bruises on her back and shoulders, and she was still sitting in the cradle of James's arms.

She got up carefully, trying not to jostle the sleeping form behind her, and headed toward the hospital wing doors.

Just as she got to her exit sign, the door slammed open and a very irate Sirius Black entered, followed closely behind by Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.

"Where is he?" Sirius demanded, looking very wild and annoyed. Lily silently pointed in the general direction and Sirius stormed off. Remus stopped to explain what had happened.

"That boyfriend of yours got what he deserved but James is going to have serve the detention," he sighed, running his hands through his sandy hair.

Lily felt her jaw drop at the injustice of it, but couldn't say anymore because Alan had entered through the still-open doors.

"Come on, Lily, I'm sorry I did what I did," he muttered, but Lily pulled her arm away, refusing to let him get near her.

"Well, I'm not sorry," she retorted, "we are through, Alan. I don't know why I chose to go out with you in the first place."

The fury in Alan's eyes almost made her bite her tongue, but the sound of encouragement from Remus helped her hold her head up.

"You heard the lady," James said from behind her. "Now, get out of here."

Alan looked around, but realizing that he was impossibly outnumbered, backed down. He left, throwing one last disgusted look in her direction.

"What made you finally say that?" Remus asked, confusion clearly showing in his eyes.

"Because," Lily said, slowly, "I found that what I wanted was in front of me the whole time."

A/N: did you think that I was done? Well, if its any consolation for you, I'm still writing! I hope you all got the reference in the title? Even if you didn't, that's okay, I know you love it anyway! So, be nice and leave a review?

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