-1Missing Dreams

Chapter 4

Updated Feb 10, 2008

By the next morning news of James and Lily was all over the school. And Lily not being used to all of the attention that she was suddenly getting was starting to get a little testy with people.

"I can't believe that James and Lily are together, I just never thought that it would happen," some random student whispered as they passed by the Gryffindor table, causing Lily to finally growl in impatience.

"Will you all get a life and stop talking about any relationship I do or do not have with James!" she snapped at the two students who couldn't be older than thirteen. "And no I did not slip him a potion, and no I did not use a spell thank you very much!"

"Lily," James grinned as he tried to tug her back down into her seat.

"No James, because if I have to hear this one more time I'm going to scream!"

"Uh, I think that you already are," Sirius pointed out and quickly ducked as Lily's hand went flying towards his head.

"Shut up!" Remus laughed.

"I am dating James Potter on my own accord!" Lily announced loudly to the students that were in the Great Hall.

"You act like we care about your life, Mudblood," a silky smooth voice drawled from behind her.

"Don't call her that!" James, Sirius and Remus all growled to the group of Slytherin's.

"Malfoy," Lily glared. "Welcome out of the hole in the ground that you dug for yourself."

"Ah, Evans, you're just jealous that my 'hole in the wall' is still standing and your's is now just rock," Malfoy smirked as he brushed a lock of his platinum hair out of his face.

"You're just mad that my house is bigger than yours," she smirked back as she walked closer to him so that she was standing toe to toe with him. "And you're mistaken if you think that you're not going to get caught for what you've done. I saw you there Malfoy, and I'm going to make sure that you go down."

"You lie," he smirked. "You weren't even there."

"Oh, but I was," Lily told him with a deadly glint in her eyes. "And believe me when I say that it's you who is going to need protection."

"Oh, I'm so scared," Malfoy mocked shuddered.

"Lucius let's just go," Snape drawled. "I'm getting tired of being in Evans' presence."

"I'll be seeing you later," Malfoy growled to Lily as he passed.

Watching the Slytherin's head back towards their table, Lily was tempted to simply kill Malfoy now.

"What was that about?" James asked slowly, looking from Lily to Malfoy and then back again.

"He was there when my parents were killed," was all that Lily said before she picked up her bag from the floor and calmly walked out of the Hall.

Surprisingly - to Lily at least, all of the Mauderers got up from their seats and followed her out.

"You don't have to follow every step that I take," Lily sighed as James put his arm around her waist and took her bag, adding it to the shoulder that was holding his own.

"You're part of our family now Lils, you go, we go," James shrugged as they headed towards Charms.

"I don't need babysitters."

"We're not," Remus told her.

Lily just shook her head and wished that the past four months of her life hadn't happened. She didn't know how to handle people constantly being around her, she didn't know how to act towards James any longer, and she definitely didn't know how to go a day without feeling like she was going to break down and cry.

"How are we going to take care of Malfoy?" Sirius asked as they passed a group of Hufflepuffs.

"This is my fight," Lily protested as she sharply looked at Sirius.

"And we're going to help you out," Sirius argued. "No one messes with one of us without getting trouble."

"I'm working on something but it won't be ready for a really long time," Lily shrugged. "I'm not into pranking him, I'm into ruining him for the rest of his life. He's going to someplace worse than Azkaban," Lily told them, her mind on the potion that she was slowly inventing.

"Anything that we can help with?" Remus asked as they walked into the empty Charms room.

"Not yet, it's still in the baby stages."

"Well, what is it?" James asked as they walked back to the Marauders normal table and sat down.

Lily looked at where she was sitting and shook her head. "I'm not sitting back here, I'm going to go get a seat up front," she protested as she picked up her bag and walked towards the front row.

"Prongs! Don't let her do this!" Sirius groaned as the rest of them followed her. "If we sit in the front row, we have to pay attention!"

"It's not going to kill you," Lily said with a shake of her head as she sat in her normal seat.

"Yes it is! I'm going to have to pay attention to something! I can't do that for more than five seconds! I'll get distracted, I know that I will!"

"That's so sad," Lily said with a fake sad look on her face. Her green eyes were laughing though.

"I know! That's why we're going to sit in the back," he grinned in triumph, thinking that he got the one up on her.

"Sure, that's why you're going to sit in the back, and I'm going to sit in the front!"

"Prongs! Make her see reason!" Sirius whined as he crossed his arms over his chest and all but pouted.

Laughing, James shook his head. "It won't kill you to actually open your book this year Sirius."

Sirius looked at James with wide eyes. "Wh-w-what? You agree with her?" he stuttered, his brown eyes growing larger.

"I'm going to sit with Lily here in the front," James shrugged and sat between Lily and Remus.

"But, what about me? I'll be the only one back there! We can't break up this way!" Sirius yelled, pronouncing his frustration with a stomp with his feet on the stone tiles.

"Then sit down in the front," Remus grinned. He was liking what Lily was accomplishing. He had been trying to get them to sit in a closer seat for years, and he just couldn't accomplish it.

"But how am I supposed to get my nap or prank people or flirt with girls in the front row?" Sirius demanded to know just as the classroom started to fill with people.

"If you do it in this class I'll sit in the back in Potions," Lily compromised.

Sirius sat down in the chair next to Remus faster than Lily could blink. "I am not sitting in the front row in potions," he said with wide eyes.

Lily looked at James with raised eyebrows and let a little laugh out. "I think that I scared him a little."

"He's terrified of Greenhorn. The only teacher he is scared of," James laughed as he rested his hand on the back of her chair and played with the tips of her auburn colored hair.

"Why?"

"I don't really know, he always mutters something about slimy hair, pimple faced and scrawny bodies," James shrugged. "It's actually really odd."

"He really has problems. Have you guys had him checked for mental instabilities?"

"We did, it didn't help anything," James told her with a straight face.

"That kind of scares me," Lily said just as the teacher walked in.

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Later that night James was sitting in the common room working on his homework, thinking about the day. He would just get Lily laughing then something would happen and she would be sad again. And then the fact that Malfoy had been a part of what happened to Lily had to be taken care of.

Malfoy was going to go down if he had anything to say about it. If only he knew what Lily had planned for him.

Just as he started to form an answer for his Charms homework, James heard it.

Running up the steps to Lily's room, James took them three at a time.

She was sleeping, huddled in the middle of her large bed crying into the sheets. James clamed his heart beat a little so that by the time he was sliding under the blankets it wasn't trying to escape from his chest.

"Shh, Lily," James whispered as he gathered her close to his body.

"No," she moaned. It was such a heartening sound that James felt his heat clench.

"Lils, come on, baby, shh."

"James," Lily cried as she woke up at the sound of his voice. "Make it go away."

"Do you want me to stay tonight?"

"Don't leave?" she mumbled as she laid her head on his chest and hooked one of her legs over his to get comfortable.

"If you want me to, I'll stay," he told her as he kissed her forehead.

"Don't leave." was all that she said before she went back to sleep.

James lay there staring up at the ceiling wondering how he had managed to get himself in this situation again. Sleeping in Lily's bed with her scent around him, causing him to wish for more.

James gasped as Lily shifted, her knee brushing him, making his body harden at the contact.

"Great, another night of not sleeping," James sighed as he kicked his shoes off, making sure that they didn't land on the bed. Then taking off his glasses, he put them on the nightstand and shifted so that his arm wasn't asleep.

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The next morning Lily woke up to the sound of snickering. "What the -" she grumbled as she opened one of her eyes. Looking around the room Lily frowned when she noticed that nothing was there. She knew that the sound wasn't coming from James, but the door that lead into the bathroom.

"Okay, I'm now going a little insane," she yawned as she laid her head back on James' chest. Her alarm hadn't even gone off yet, and she did not feel like getting ready before it.

Then she heard the noise again.

Frowning, Lily looked towards where it came from and pushed the covers back, climbing over James' body, Lily got out of bed and pulled down on her nightgown.

"What are you doing up?" James mumbled as he fumbled with his glasses so that he could see her better.

"Something is making a weird noise from over here," Lily told him as she walked towards the bathroom.

"No one is in here besides us," James said as he yawned, then finally looked at Lily. "If that's what you wear to bed nightly, I have a feeling that you're going to have a hard time getting me out of your bed."

Looking over her shoulder Lily smirked. "It's all I own," she pratically purred as she took in his messier than usual hair and his sleepy blue eyes. He had a five o'clock shadow and a sexy smirk. She didn't understand how she could feel like she wasted so many years avoiding James and now she felt like she wasted so much time.

"Is that an invitation Miss Evans?" James grinned from his position in her bed.

"For some reason I actually sleep when you're near me," she frowned in thought. "Ow!" she yelped as she walked into… thin air?

"Okay, what the hell is going on here?" Lily demanded as she looked at the spot that she just ran into.

James was glaring at the air in general as he grabbed the wand - Lily's wand- that was placed on the night stand. "Accio Invisibility cloak!" he summoned.

Except instead of the cloak coming towards him it turned into a huge flower pot.

"Um…what?" Lily frowned at the flower pot, then noticed Sirius and Remus come out from behind it.

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