"You know you do have your own flat now," James teased, it had been a month since Lily had moved out, but she ended up spending most of her free time at the house with James and Sirius.
"I know. Are you saying that you don't want me around Potter?" she accused.
"Not at all Evans," he grinned.
"Well…..good"
"So exactly what was the point of you moving out?" asked Remus.
"She wanted to keep her boyfriend happy," teased Sirius.
"Colin? What was his problem? This is the safest place in the wizarding community right now, except Hogwarts," said Remus.
"I was his problem," said James.
"Ah….well fair enough I suppose," said Sirius.
"I need another firewhiskey," said Lily, she really didn't want to talk about that anymore.
"It's in the kitchen where it always is," said James.
"ARGGHHH POTTER YOU LIE!!" shouted Lily a few minutes later.
"What did I do now?" gulped James, scrambling to his feet and making his way into the kitchen.
"Lily….is there something wrong?" he asked timidly, as he stepped into the kitchen.
"Where. Is. The. Firewhiskey?"
"In the cupboard," said James.
"The one in the cupboard is empty."
"Ah…..is there another one in the fridge?"
"If there was would I have needed to shout you?"
"No"
"No, which means you are out of firewhiskey."
"Lily….you're scaring me."
"I want firewhiskey I don't want to be sober tonight," she whined.
"Okay, I'll go out and get some."
"Everywhere is closed now."
"Ah…you'll have some at your place."
"I do. I do have some, yayy," cheered Lily springing into life again.
"Okay, then I'll go and get it," said James relieved to have calmed her. Lily had seemed to be much more on edge than usual recently, more prone to freak outs.
"No it's alright. I can go and get it," said Lily feeling bad that she had freaked him out so much.
"It's not safe for you to be out on your own."
"No safer than it is for you to be out on your own."
"I'm an auror."
"And more of a target."
"Lily I'm not arguing with you, you're not going out in the middle of the night on your own."
"Fine then you can come with me then."
"Fine."
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"Tell me again why we can't apparate," hissed James, they had been walking to Lily's flat for 10 minutes, and it was freezing.
"Because some genius put up anti apparition charms…."
"For your protection…."
"I know….I know."
"We should have flown…."
"Now you tell me. We could have flown on the broomstick?"
"Yes."
"ARRGGGGHHHH MEN!!"
"Sorry I didn't realise."
"I'm going to become a lesbian."
"There is really no need for that. You didn't think of flying either."
"Shut up James."
"And if you remember correctly the only reason we are going to your flat is because you want firewhiskey."
"Alright I get it, it's my fault. GO HOME!!"
"What the hell is the matter with you?"
"Nothing."
"It's something, you don't get yourself into this state over an empty bottle of firewhiskey."
"What do you know?"
"I know you. I've known you since we were 16, I know everything about you and I know when there is something bothering you."
"There is nothing bothering me."
"Liar," said James, "Come on, you know you can tell me anything."
"There is nothing to tell," said Lily, 'at least nothing I can tell you'
"Alright fine….just if you do want to talk to someone…."
"I know…."
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THE NEXT NIGHT
James was lying in his bed, trying to work out what had been bugging Lily for the past few weeks. It couldn't be that they had slept together because neither of them had brought it up, or showed any sign that they even remembered what had happened.
"James….are you awake? I need….you….wake up," gasped Lily flinging his bedroom door open.
"I'm awake what's wrong?" asked James jumping up and stumbling over to her.
"It's…..he….I…."
"Come on calm down," said James soothingly, guiding her over to the bed so she could sit down. "Just breathe."
"I didn't know….I…."
"Come on calm down," said James pulling his arms around Lily until she calmed down.
"What happened?" he asked when she had stopped shaking.
"Colin…he…."
"Did he hurt you?"
"No…He…."
"What tell me, what did he do?"
"He proposed."
Those two little words hit James like a ton of bricks.
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This is really just a filler chapter, leading up to the next two chapters.
Oh and I've had people asking me if Lily is pregnant and she's not, I think that would be too predictable and I've done that in my other stories so I wanted to make this one a bit different.
Anyway REVIEW. I'll try and get the next chapter up soon, it'll be the big fluffy emotional chapter.