Yo, I'm back. It took me longerr to put this up than I thought it would and I'm sorry. Well, enough chit chat!
Thank You's:
babydoll223 99 - ah, you just gotta love stumbling upon stuff. I know I do. As for the JAmes remembering or not thing, just read on and you'll see
steponme6013
An Aspring Author
fiesty black head
LilyHeartsMarauders - lol I'm glad for all your reviews
BitterBeginnings - I'm glad I've made your day! Hearing your opnion on my writing really gave me a boost in writing (I probably wouldn't have put this up now...)
Notit - lol luv the phrae "the plot is thinkening" and yup, it just wouldn't be a story without drama :)
Lady Knight Keladry - i dont like to think of Sirius so much as an idiot, but more of comic relief (u just gotta love him)
Nephilia - Glad that you're enjoying it so much. and I know wat you mean with not doing any coursework whe you're supposed to... but HEY! FanFic does that to people. I know I'm supposed to be studying for finals right now... and thanks for mentiong the Lumos/Lumen thing. I'll get right on it
firewalker32
scribbles.pooksta - that's pretty cool with the whole looking like Dawn thing
CORRECTION: THANK YOU TO NEPHILIA WHO BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THE LUMEN/LUMOS THING. THE COVEN IS INDEED THE LUMEN COVEN. I'LL GET TO FIXING IT RIGHT AWAY.
Lily felt his warm lips against her own cold ones
Lily's emerald eyes couldn't get any wider and she couldn't get any more shocked as she watched him, his eyes closed.
She felt his warm lips against her own cold ones. It felt different from the kisses she had experienced before. It felt more… connecting. It wasn't a simple lips meets lips thing. No. She could feel every beat of his heart, his pulse increasing. The warmth felt like soft needles pricking at her lips.
As much as she was shocked, she was also enjoying the moment. Unable to stop herself, Lily slowly closed her eyes and gave into the kiss, letting her arms fall down to the bed and supporting herself to stay up. She cold almost feel her legs about to give out beneath her from this new feeling inside of her.
She knew that he was running out of air and as he pulled away, she opened her eyes to meet with his own hazel ones which were slightly hazy from the Firewhiskey.
As James opened his mouth to say something, Lily stood quickly, not looking him in the eye, and left in the blink of an eye. James looked amazed, and even more wasted, as she had disappeared like… magic! (A/N: lol. Sry, had to add that)
He simply shrugged and fell back on the bed, cuddling his fluffy pillow and fell into the land of dreams.
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Hurrying up the stairs, Lily quickly and silently entered the girls dorm, hearing the shower running softly in the bathroom and knew that Dawn was in there. Lily tore off her clothes, changing into her pajamas. Lying down on, Lily could only question what just happened.
She touched her lips and could still feel his lips on hers. But what surprised her was her response. THE James Potter had kissed her and she had kissed back?!
She kept trying to tell herself that he was drunk, that it meant nothing. In the morning, he most definitely wouldn't remember. And realizing that, Lily could only ignore the small spark of hope that he might remember. That he might actually care for her.
As for her kissing him, Lily could only reason that it had been a long night, and she hadn't been prepared for it. Her reaction meant nothing. She didn't have any feelings for James Potter what so ever.
Lily turned onto her stomach and placed her face in the pillow, feeling a flush come to her naturally pale face. She knew that should she look in the mirror, she would look a complete mess.
Sleep came uneasily.
She was running fast through the dark forest, dodging the branches and jumping over the hidden tree trunks on the ground. She turned her head to look back and saw big, glistening red eyes watching her, filled only with pure evil. She turned back forward and was suddenly at a dead end of sharp thorns.
Turning, she saw a cloaked figure coming towards her, only his red eyes visible with the rest of his face in the shadows.
"Well, well, well," he said, his voice pure venom. "We finally meet Miss Evans. I've heard all about you. Quite powerful you are."
Lily's eye narrowed and she glared at the dark figure that was slowly approaching he,r taking his grand old time.
"What do you want with me?" Lily's voice was cold and harsh, though indside, she couldn't help but feel terrified.
The man cackled evilly. "What do I want?" He said mockingly. "I expected a smart girl like you to be able to figure that out. You're a vampire and a powerful witch. I can only imagine how powerful you are now. I'm anxious for you to join me and I can see how much you really are capable."
Lily suddenly gasped, realization creeping in. "You're…"
The man laughed finally reaching her and stopping before her. "Lord Voldemort. The Dark Lord. Yes, yes. I know all the names. But you may call me Tom."
Suddenly, a green light engulfed her and she found herself suddenly alone in nothing but black. Suddenly, a hand grabbed her shoulder and she screamed as she turned to look into a pair of hazel eyes. She backed away slightly to see the persons face and saw James Potter standing before her, covered in blood.
"Lily," he said softly.
"James. W-what are you doing here?"
He only shook his head with a mischievous smile. "Now, you didn't think I'd let you have all the fun did you?"
Before she could respond, there was a sudden bright light that engulfed the two, the last sheard was James' voice.
"Lily."
Lily's eyes snapped open, the other girls still asleep except Dawn who also looked like she had just woken up.
"You okay?" Dawn asked softly, seeing her usually calm and collected friend look like hell. "It was the dream right?"
Lily only nodded, not mentioning that her dream had been longer than the first time she had dreamt it in the beginning of the school year. She was silent for a moment before asking softly, "What time is it?"
Dawn glanced at one of their roommate's clock before responding. "Six twenty."
Nodding, Lily sat up knowing she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. She took her brush off the dresser and began brushing her red hair that probably looked a mess. She sighed and placed it down after only a few strokes. "I'm gonna go take a shower."
Dawn nodded and watched as her friend move into the bathroom, curios as to know if she was missing something. Lily seemed a bit off today, and it was only the morning.
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James woke up slowly, wondering why he felt so weird. Oh yeah. He had a hangover. Sitting up and stretching his arms, he ignored the pounding in his head and reached into a drawer of his nightstand, taking out one of the many Hangover Draughts he had in case of this type of thing.
Upon drinking it, James' head instantly cleared. He saw everyone else still asleep, even Alec. James stood and went to go to the shower.
While under the warm water, James suddenly remembered his dream. He had kissed a girl, though he had been unable to see exactly who. But she did have red hair…
Red hair. James was instantly reminded of Lily. Loner Lily, the girl who was secretly a vampire, the girl who had somehow grabbed his attention this past year.
He shook his head to get rid of these thoughts. He was THE James Potter. He shouldn't be thinking about Lily Evans. He should be thinking about new pranks on the Slytherins, who to take to the next Hogsmeade, quidditch strategies.
And yet, all these thoughts lead back to Lily. The prank she had helped plan, the time in Hogsmeade he had talked to her in the book store and last night in the club. Heck, even quidditch reminded him of her, her best friend having been good at flying in first year.
James Potter hated to admit it, but he been beaten; had met his match.
He was stuck on Lily Evans.
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As the two girls made their way down to the Great Hall, they noticed the stares they received from people that they got almost every day. And as usual, they ignored them, continuing on.
Upon entering the Great Hall, Lily and Dawn sat at the end of the table, saving a space for Alec although the two girls weren't sure he would even be coming. As Lily was picking on a steak from the steak and eggs, which in her opinion was cooked not rare enough, her head snapped up upon hearing a sound.
His laugh.
Lily quickly looked back down at her food as the Marauders, including James, walked by them. She could only hope that James didn't see her.
'Idiot,' she thought to herself. 'Of course he'll notice you. You have bright red hair and you're completely isolated at the end of the breakfast table with Dawn.'
As luck would have it, the boys continued walking down the aisle to the middle of the lunch table where upon sitting, Peter began stuffing his face, Remus taking out a book, Sirius flirting with a 5th year, and James talking Quidditch with some of his fellow teammates.
Dawn knocked Lily out of her observations. "It's been awhile since the last Quidditch match. You know when the next one is?"
Lily broke away from looking at the boys and at her friend. "I think there is one between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff in two weeks."
Dawn sighed, picking at an uneaten pancake with her fork. "Those are the most boring games."
'Lily, is everything okay?'
Lily took a quick glance at Dawn, not stopping picking at the pancake. 'Of course, why?'
'Well you seem a bit distracted and flustered. And you won't let me see you thoughts.'
Lily couldn't help but sigh at her friend's accuracy at finding her to be lying. 'You're right Dawn. Something ISN'T okay.'
She could see Dawn smirk triumphantly. 'And? What is it?'
Taking a quick glance to the Marauders, Lily responded softly and hestitantly, 'Last night, James… Well… James kissed me.' There. She had said it. She waited for her friend's response.
"WHAT?!"
Half the hall stopped and turned to the two girls, seeing Dawn standing up and Lily sitting looking slightly flustered. Lily grabbed Dawn and pulled her down quickly ognoring the looks that soon went back to whatever they had been doing.
'I said he kissed me.'
'Sorry bout that… Just kind of surprised…'
Lily looked slightly confused. 'What do you mean "kind of"?' Lily had been sure that Dawn would be SHOCKED at the news of James Potter kissing her, not just "kind of" surprised.
Dawn looked away from her friend and replied gently, not wanting to anger her friend, 'Well, he does kind of act like he likes you sometimes…' Seeing her friend's questioning look, Dawn continued with a slight roll of her eyes. 'If you haven't noticed, he watches you a lot.'
Lily felt even more confused now and glanced down the table towards the Marauders who were all laughing. Lily focused on James, trying to get into his mind. However, luck was not on her side; it seemed his parents had trained him further in Occlumency than the last time she had entered his mind last year, making her unable to get in. Sure, she could talk to him via mind, but getting into his mind was a completely different story.
Lily pushed slightly and noticed that James had tensed apparently noticing someone was trying to enter his mind. Lily quickly removed herself out of there and turned back to picking at her steak again, not noticing Dawn's amused look.
"Stupid Occlumency… Why the hell would he need to know it?" Lily muttered angrily to herself, not noticing Dawn smile as she silently watched James Potter glance shyly over at her best friend for what had to be the tenth time that morning.
The two continued eating, Alec arriving within the last 5 minutes of breakfast. Needless to say, the girls remained silent about the kiss. AThey knew Alec wouldn't be all too happy about that.
"So about tonight."
The girls looked up at Alec who had taken an orange from a nearby fruit basket and was tossing it up and down. "What exactly will we be practicing?"
Dawn shurgged and looked over at Lily who seemed to have come back to reality and was serious. "I'm thinking we should work with wandless today. More useful."
Alec nodded and continued throwing the orange while the girls pick at their food. The trio was stopped by other students getting up, signalling that it was time for class.
On the way out of the Great Hall, Dawn held back saying she would meet Lily in class and said goodbye to Alec. She waited as Sirius passed her with the rest of the Marauders and grabbed his arm, pulling him quickly off to the side of the crowd, into the shadows.
Upon seeing Dawn doing this, Sirius opened his outh to scream, maybe get some help from his nearby fangirls, but Dawn shut him up quickly, placing her hand over his mouth.
Sirius smirked when she dropped her hand. "Back for another kiss Delarosa?"
Dawn rolled her eyes. "Black, call me Dawn Kortz. I change my last name for a reason. And eww, don't flatter yourself. I don't want another kiss."
"Well then, what exactly do you want? We have to get to class."
"Yeah right Black. Like you care about getting to class on time." She saw the look on his face the clearly signaled he wanted to know what the hell she wanted and a mischievous smile came onto Dawn's face.
"We need to talk about James and Lily."
Sooo... I hope it was okay. Pretty short but hey, it's a new chapter. Let me know what y'all think!