Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and friends, deep sigh…

The weeks flew past quickly and after what had happened the night of the museum open house Lily and James weren't even sure where they stood in regards to their friends. Everything that could have conceivably gone wrong had gone wrong for the young couple. They were beginning to fell the fatigue that everybody mentions accompanies war. The whole world appeared to be spinning off its axes and it was the young couple could do to stop themselves from withdrawing from life entirely. There minds never strayed far from the events that had determined the course of the short remainder of their young lives, the night everything changed…

"Sirius if we are late I swear Ill have your head on a silver platter… I mean it! I specifically told you that you did not have time to go gallivanting around Hogsmead with James. But did you listen no you did not…"

Sirius wasn't sure what he was going to do. The only thing he was certain of at the moment was that he was between a dragon and a dungeon to repeat the well worn wizarding phrase. Sirius now knew that there was a spy after his best friend and there unborn child. It was someone that everyone trusted. Sirius had never had a second thought about whether or not he would do everything in his power to help his friends. No that is not why he was in an uneasy state of mind. No his unrest came from the fact that he wasn't sure what to do about his pregnant fiancé. No matter how many times he had gone over it in his head he knew that she couldn't have anything to do with it. Ella would never turn on Lily the way he would never turn on James. Yet this is where his problem came in. It had to be someone close to them seeing as only people that were very close to them could have been passing on the information that was being passed on. He couldn't for the life of him pick out the traitor, with this line of thinking he could only rationalize that it had to be Remus, or Ella … and after talking with Peter he was leaning on the side of later

"Wow, just when I thought I could care any less about history", said a slightly drunk Sirius as he looked at a display on house-elves, which earned him and elbow in the ribs from his frazzled fiancée.

"Sirius I spent forever putting this exhibit together if you can't say one nice thing then shut up. I've got enough to think about without you acting like your two. Ella remarked on the brink of tears.

When Sirius struggled to find something to say that wouldn't get him in trouble for lying, she gave a deep sigh turned on her heal and went off to mingle with other historians. But what could he say? That he was sorry he had drank too much. I'd like to see anyone take the fact that the woman they love has turned on their best friends and not get drunk he thought bitterly to him self. One person that seemed pleased at Sirius's somber intoxicated mood was Peter, who took it as a sign that the seeds of doubt he had planted were taking root.

"For crying out loud Sirius" Lily hissed at him as she watched her best friend walk off in a huff. Do you honestly think that any of us are thrilled to have been roped up into coming here tonight?"

"Your board? But you droned on all evening about how fascinating it all is."

"Of course we have mate," James said with a smile "what else were we going to say? I mean history has always been boring to us all. You've got to seriously wonder how valid a subject is when even Lily managed to fail it."

"I could have passed it if I had a mind to." Lily muttered going pink in the face. The truth of the matter was that Binn's had failed to intrigue her in history of magic at all. She had failed to see the point in memorizing all those daunting Goblin names. She couldn't have cared less when they revolted. And when Ella had gone on and on about Hogwarts a History she had been board to tears. Yet she had never said anything as history was the one class her friend had ever taken an interest in.

Lily on the other hand was more of a hands on person, she like the practical aspects in the other areas of her schooling. Potions had been her favorite because there the theory that would lead to something concrete, something physical. She had the same luck with charms. There was the theory on how they should be done and then when you followed it she managed to achieve the desired outcome. Transfiguration on the other hand had proved a little more difficult. She had never seen the need to turn something into something else, although she had respected Professor McGonagall enough to put a real effort into it. In the end though she always had to go to James for help of course he had never known it. She had used Ella to get the information she needed.

She would work on homework with Ella who unbeknown to her was slightly better at the subject than Lily herself had been. So when Ella would ask for help Lily would make it seem like she knew the answer but like she didn't condone cheating. She would tell Ella that when she had managed to find the answer Lily would review her paper to see if she had gotten it right. Ella would then run to Remus who she had exclusively dated for pretty much their entire Hogwarts career and if he didn't know James and Sirius who had been suckers for the baked goods she offered as payment for their services would help her. And thus Lily would have her own questions answered as she proofed Ella's paper. It had been one of her better schemes and she had always managed to come out of Transfiguration with a decent mark.

This innocent manipulation on Lily's behalf was another reason she silently endured her friend's passion. Lily knew that had she asked Ella would have been more than happy to just give her the answers that the maurders would give her. But Lilly had been of one mind on the matter of James Potter at the time that she refused to openly admit to anyone that she had needed his help.

"Honestly Sirius, Just grin and bear it. Silently may I add." Lily grumbled turning back from the display case." To which Sirius just sighed and looked around the room.

At his friends playful bickering Remus was at a loss. He had decided earlier, after speaking in vague terms of the situation with Peter, that tonight was the night he was going to make his move and he hoped Sirius would eventually understand. After all had he not just proven that he and Ella weren't compatible? She was a scholar, a thinker like himself and Sirius was a doer. Not that being a doer was necessarily a bad thing it just meant that he didn't understand Ella's world the way Remus could. As his friends continued to try and get Sirius behave. Remus snuck away from the group when he saw Ella go off into a side room by herself. No one except a very pleased Peter had noticed his departure. Peter smiled deciding to give them a minute as his master had instructed before suggesting Sirius go apologize before he was in too much trouble.

"What do you mean your planning on leaving? What has Sirius got to say about all of this? So that's it none of your friends get to see you get married? What about the baby? Honestly Ella I have no idea what's got into you…"

"He kissed me! Remus kissed me… He started going on about how he knew the timing was terrible but he loved me. That we could make it work if we really wanted to. Then Sirius walked and a horrible situation turned worse. Oh to see the look on his face Lily… Or the things that were said between them or me for that matter, I called the wedding off. I can't take anymore of this… Then my fiancé and I talked it through and I thought everything had gone back to normal. Then the other night we were getting ready to go to the Order meeting and all of a sudden he accuses me of having an affair with Remus, furthermore he starts off on how I naturally have to be the spy. He went on and on without waiting to hear anything from me and then he storms out. He came back the next morning and tells me he went to see none other than Dana White. That is the second man I've loved that that woman has taken from me. Well that's it! I have feelings for Remus. Yet I fell hard for Sirius and I don't know what to do anymore. So yes I'm leaving. I've managed to get in on a dig that'll give me time to figure things out and allow the two of them to work things out. It will also manage to disprove that I am spying on you and James because I will not even be here. Then we will see what Mr. I'm all that thinks then. As for the baby well Sirius and I can decide that when we have to. I'm sorry but I've got to get going. Dumbledore has given me a new assignment for the order in light of me transferring. He is always saying that we need more members abroad. I'll send you a letter real soon. See you later Lily and keep well."

And that had been that Lily Potter watched as the best friend she had ever had walked out the front door. Sirius in a decision that was to be one of his reoccurring memories in his Azkbanian cell just glared as she walked past him in the hall. Lily began to feel the immensity of the horrid times she was living in, as now when she truly needed someone to talk to. The sole reason she had happened to come over that morning was now gone. Yet she hadn't died like everyone else she distanced herself by choice. What became of Ella after that was not to be of any consequence to Lily and James at least except that her presence in their life is what started what was ultimately their demise.

A.N. I finally managed to find the time to update. Yeah me! I had trouble with this chapter because I had to find a way to get back on track; this is after all a Lily/James fic. And in reviewing past chapters I felt that I had strayed a bit too much from them. So I think I've managed to get the story to a point where I'm back on track. Read and Review please.