Crack.
Thunder shook the common room, awaking Lily with a start. It was 7:00 in the morning, she had an hour until her first class of the day. Potions. With Snape in her class.
Yay.
She sat up, stretching before looking over and seeing James. She smiled broadly, watching him shift in his sleep. His shirt had come up slightly, revealing his bloody fantastic body.
She sighed, figuring she should wake him up so he didn't miss breakfast.
She crawled out of the blanket she had tangled around her—When did that get there?—and scurried over to James.
They were curled up next to the fire in the Gryffindor common room on the floor, leaning against a gold and red chair. James had his arm wrapped around Lily's shoulder lamely ,and she was sitting on his lap, textbook laying on hers. They were studying for a Potions final. Really, it was just Lily studying, and James was just relishing the moment.
He sighed contently, breathing in the scent of her. Flowers, grass, and something sweet. Vanilla, perhaps? She began to close to textbook, but not before looking up at her boyfriend. "You done?" James nodded, eager to have her to himself.
She smiled, closed the textbook fully, and crawled around his legs so she was facing him. Her smile turned devious. "What now, James?"
He leaned into her, mumbling, "I have a few ideas…"
"James? James! JAMES!" James felt his shoulder being shook...
"James? James! JAMES!" Lily shook James's shoulder, attempting to wake him. James sat up quickly, in a daze, looking around the common room.
"Lily?" His shoulders relaxed, a smile appeared on his face.
She smiled slightly, patting him on the shoulder before standing up. "Nice dream, eh?" She eyed him.
James froze. Ever get the eerie feeling someone can read your mind?
"Yeah…" He chuckled. "Pretty good." She lifted a brow.
"Well, Potions starts in an hour." She turned to leave, but stopped and turned back around. She took his jacket off, trying to hide her smile.
"Thank you." She tossed it over to him and he caught it with ease. "For everything." James nodded and watched her leave to her dorm.
He looked down at the jacket. Curious, he lifted it to his face.
"Flowers, grass, vanilla." He smirked.
Lily was already at the Great Hall when James came in. She was sitting across from Mary Macdonald and another girl whom he knew to be Alice, he hadn't the slightest idea her last name, though. None of his mates were in the Great Hall yet, so he decided to stop and chat.
"Hullo, ladies." James smiled, approaching the table. Lily leaned back from Mary and Alice, as if she were just telling them a secret.
He nodded to Mary and Alice, before his eyes fell upon Lily. "Hi, Lily." He smirked down at her before sitting down next to her on the bench. "Sleep well?" He didn't break eye contact. She blushed, her face turning a glorious shade of scarlet.
"Yes, and I assume you did too?" She smiled largely, scooping up porridge and plopping it into a bowl, adding sugar and milk.
James lifted an eyebrow. Playing along, "It was alright. My back hurts a bit, really. Porridge any good?" He held a devious smile. She nodded, stifling giggles.
Mary and Alice exchanged looks, but shrugged and decided against saying anything, munching on their pastries instead.
Laughing could be heard behind them, James turned and saw Sirius, Remus, and Peter walk into the Great Hall.
Sirius was magically turning Peter's hair different colors, making him bark loudly with laughter. Remus just shook his head, laughing meekly. Peter was laughing along too, but with a confused expression on his face.
James chuckled, watching the dramatic entrance his mates were making. They walked up to where James was sitting, looking around at his company. Sirius smiled broadly at Mary and said, "We eating here today, boys?"
Not giving anyone anytime to answer, Sirius jumped on the bench James was on, stepped over the table, and sat down next to Mary, not even acknowledging the flabbergasted looks on anyone's face, including the Professors.
Peter followed suit, sitting next to a now very uncomfortable looking Alice. Remus shook his head at his rash friend's actions, sitting next to Lily quietly.
"Hullo, boys." Lily said, keeping a watchful eye on Remus, whose head was now in his hands. "You okay, Remus?"
"Fine… uh, headache."
"You need to eat something, mate…" James urged, piling bacon and eggs onto a plate and handing it to Remus.
Remus nodded, nibbling on some bacon. Sirius leaned in, speaking to Mary. "So, I hear you're good at healing spells?"
She leaned into Alice, trying to get away from him. "Pretty good I suppose…" Alice sniggered.
They day went by quick enough, Lily just found herself ignoring Snape altogether in Potions.
oOo
It was at night.
As usual, Lily was in the library. Making her way through the massive room, trying to find a book to help her in Potions. Sure, she was great at Potions, but only when Snape helped her. She re-slung her bag over her shoulder.
Professor Slughorn mentioned something about having the class begin to create amortentia, a love potion, which was a very difficult potion to master.
She finally just grabbed a random potions book and made her way over to her haven, figuring she could find what she needed inside its pages.
She stopped short.
"James Potter, what the bloody hell do you think you're doing in my chair?" She demanded, stomping around the chair so she was in front of him.
James smirked. "Oh hello, Lily." He sat, looking up at her through his glasses, his thumbs twirling around each other, watching her throw her bag to the floor in front of the chair.
"James. Move." Lily demanded, pointing her finger to the other chair in the room.
James shook his head. "Nah. I rather like this chair." He bounced up and down on it, mocking her, a huge grin on his face.
"If you don't move, I will sit on you." His eyebrows raised. "And I'm very heavy." She added quickly.
James smirked again, patting his lap. "I'm not moving, Lil."
"Ugh!" She yelled, putting her book on the table next to the chair, adjusting her skirt, and slamming her rump in his lap, attempting to hurt him.
James just smiled and wrapped his arms around her stomach, pulling her in closer. "No, no. Stop that." She said sternly, unlocking his arms from around her waist. "This is punishment."
James laughed loudly. "Sure it is, Lil." She turned to him and squinted her eyes. "Hush, you." Shoving a small finger in his face.
She flipped open her book to the love potion page. Not being very comfortable, she leaned back, but at an angle so she wasn't on top of James. Really, it wasn't much more comfortable.
James peered over at the book she was reading. "Love potion, yeah?" Lily blushed.
"We're doing them soon in Potions, okay. I'm trying to study."
James crossed his arms and leaned against the arm rest. "Alright, then. Tell me about it."
Lily looked up at him. "Well, it makes the person who drinks the said potion fall in love with the person who gives it to them. It smells like the person you love if you were to smell it." She said matter of factly.
James nodded. He knew exactly what his amortentia would smell like.
Curious, he sat up so he was closer to Lily. "Lil, what do I smell like?" He leaned forward so she could smell him, a playful smile on his lips.
But to his surprise, she answered without smelling him. "Pine. Outdoorsy, you know? And musk. And… leather. From Quidditch I assume."
"You didn't need to smell me?" He said, chuckling and leaning back again. She blushed and shook her head, making hair fall out of her bun.
"No..." She admitted sheepishly. She should've at least pretended to smell him.
"What do I smell like?" She asked, lifting an eyebrow.
James smirked. "Flowers, mainly. And grass. Plus something really sweet. Vanilla maybe…"
She nodded. "I can see that… I use vanilla shampoo." She said laughing.
He chuckled, shaking his head. "Yeah, that would do it."
Lily smiled, returning to her book. She was surprised at how much she liked his company even though she was trying to study.
And as if he read her mind and wanted her to suffer, he squirmed from underneath her and got up to leave.
"I guess I should get going." He said, turning to the door.
"No!" Lily jumped and grabbed his hand, pulling him back. She didn't realize that this was going to send them falling on top of each other and back onto the chair.
Lily's eyes were bigger than quaffles when she realized how they ended up. James had somehow ended up between her legs, his hips pushing her skirt up embarrassingly high. His face was in her neck, his arms on either side of her shoulders, no doubt he tried to catch himself.
She sat with her mouth ajar, too afraid to move. His lifted himself up slowly, so they were face to face.
"Well… uh, this is awkward." He said, laughing meekly. She nodded quickly, not taking her eyes off his.
He stood up, looking away as she scrambled to pull her skirt down.
"Um, so why did you want me to stay?" He asked. Lily shrugged. "I don't know…" She smiled a little.
He smirked. "Well, obviously you want me to stay awfully bad, so fine." He sat in a chair near hers, laughing when he saw her roll her eyes.
Striking up conversation, Lily asked, "So are you ready for the charms final?" He shook his head. "Not at all. I'm bloody awful at charms. I doubt I'm even going to make it to next year… " He blushed slightly.
Lily shook her head, leaning over to her bag. "Now that just won't do." She pulled out her charms notes and waved her wand, making the two chairs they were in connect with a large 'woosh' sound, creating a couch.
James beamed at Lily as she flipped through the charms book.
She found the page she was looking for and scooted closer to him. James became painfully aware of their thighs touching. "Okay, so this one isn't that bad. It's called Muffilato, it's a silencing charm." She pulled her wand out from behind her ear, doing a flick then swish motion. "Flick and swish."
"It makes it so no one would be able hear you and I, or just you. It really just depends on what you want the spell to do." She added, scanning her notes.
James pulled his wand out from the hem of his pants, and attempted the spell. A bang erupted from his wand, and a flash of light blinded them both temporarily. They both paused, waiting for the clerk to show up and kick them out, but no such thing happened.
Lily waved smoke away from her face, coughing slightly. James laughed, blushing and fixing his glasses. "Well that wasn't right."
Lily threw her head back and laughed. "Not in the slightest, James." She nudged him playfully, shaking her head.
"I told you I'm rubbish at charms. You can't say you weren't warned!"
"This is very true." Lily said, laughing along.
"I'm not rubbish at other things, as you may already know." He said cockily, straightening up a bit.
"Oh?" Lily asked, closing the charms book. She figured they were done with that for the day. "Such as?"
"DA, Quidditch, snogging…"
Lily giggled. "I'm rubbish at DA and Quidditch. Flying is absolutely terrifying… I hate heights."
James nodded. "And the third?" He lifted his eyebrow smirking.
She blushed, turning a deep shade of red. "I… well… um, I don't know…"
He didn't think that would be her answer. She avoided his gaze.
"Lily…. Have you ever snogged someone?" He asked, feeling his heart soar. Her innocence made it that much better. He then realized how desperately he wanted to be her first snog. Her only snog.
She turned her head the opposite direction of him and shook her head. "Boys have cooties."
James laughed, scooting closer to her slightly, even though there was practically no scooting space. "Some are immune, you know." She laughed, turning back to face him.
"I doubt that."
"Oh really?"
Yes, really, James." She rolled her eyes, smiling.
James became serious. "I could prove it to you."
"And how, exactly could you prove it—Oh." She blushed furiously again, suddenly becoming very enticed by her two thumbs swirling around each other in her lap.
James chuckled slightly. He tucked a bright red stray hair out of her face, smiling down at her.
She sneaked a peek at him, to see that he was staring at her. "What?"
"You're so beautiful, Lily…" He messed with a curl of her hair, not taking his eyes off hers. She was blushing so deeply she almost looked purple.
"James…." She was silenced by him leaning in and kissing her lightly on the mouth. He backed away slightly, keeping his eyes shut. She kept her eyes open, however, and was staring at his mouth. She was racking her brain trying to think of the pros and cons of kissing this terribly handsome 16 year old.
After about five seconds of hard thinking, she closed her eyes and closed the gap between them, not wanting to think anymore.
He smiled into the kiss, letting out a sigh of relief. He wrapped one of his arms around her waist, while running the other one through her hair.
Lily, on the other hand, had no idea what to do with her hands. She decided to lay them shakily on his chest. She was so incredibly nervous… Until he made a little moaning sound at her touch. She giggled, wrapping her arms around his neck.
Finally, they broke apart. "Feedback on our snogging?" James said, panting heavily, staring at her lovingly. "Perfect."
Lily smiled. "This changes things I suppose…"
James laughed, nodding. "I suppose it does."
oOo
Lily heard a light knock on her window.
She sat up groggily, rubbing her eyes. Shivering as her feet hit to cold stone floor, she grabbed her cloak and her wand, making her way over to the glass to investigate.
"James?!" She whispered angrily, opening the window a crack. "James, what the bloody hell are you doing?!"
He was floating outside her window on his broomstick, a goofy grin played out on his face.
"Coming to see you, of course. Happy Birthday, Lily!" He pulled on the window so it was open completely.
Ignoring his statement about her birthday in an attempt to stay angry for his risky behavior, "Just because you're Head Boy and I'm Head Girl now doesn't mean diddly-squat if we get caught doing this." She motioned between them, proving her point, but she was desperately trying to hide her smile.
James waved her statement away with his hand. "I want to show you something, Lil."
Lily looked back to her dorm-mates. Only four people know that Lily and James have been dating since sixth year, and that's Mary, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. James and Lily figured it would be easier to keep their relationship running smoothly if no one knew.
"Do you know what could have happened if one of them heard you and not me?" Lily asked, trying to sound angry.
"I know, I'm sorry, I just wanted to show you something…" James repeated, holding out his hand, hoping she would take it.
She sighed, finally letting her smile show. "Alright…" She took his hand and felt herself being pulled onto the broom, closing the window behind her.
"Bloody hell!" She screeched, realizing how high up they were. She turned so she was facing James's chest and buried her face in it. Upon doing this, she found herself face first into a flower.
"Happy birthday, Lil." James smiled, holding up the lily.
Lily couldn't stop smiling as she lifted the flower to her nose. "Thank you, James." She said, leaning forward and kissing him.
He smiled, taking the lily and placing it behind her ear. "Do you trust me, Lily?" James asked, still messing with her hair.
"With my life."
"Good. 'Cause away we go!"
They took off, zooming away from the castle and above the Forbidden Forest, Lily gripping James so tightly her knuckles were white.
James smiled, looking down at Lily. She was adorable. "Lily, look. It's okay. I'll sow down…"
She opened her eyes slightly, gasping at the beautiful scene before her. They were past the Forbidden Forest, and now above a meadow of some sort.
Spring at Hogwarts was beautiful, even at night.
James landed.
Lily hopped off the broom. She dizzily lowered herself to the grass, twirling the lily between her fingers and smiling.
"I know it's cheesy." Lily looked up at James, waiting for him to continue. "But I enchanted that lily to stay alive as long as we love each other." He lowered himself next to her. "So as long as you love me, and I love you back, it will stay alive."
Lily jumped up and kissed him with such enthusiasm, it knocked him over completely, landing them in a pile of dew covered flowers. They laughed harder than they had in a long time.
"You know, that reminded me of the night we started dating." James said, laying back while Lily snuggled into his chest, playing with the lily again.
"When I knocked you over? Oh Merlin, don't remind me." They laughed again.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
They watched the full moon go down, hearing joyful faint howls in the distance.
Somewhere, to this day, is a full bloomed lily, in loving memory of Lily and James Potter.
AN: Hey guys! It's been a while! The last bit is a prologue, and yes James missed a full moon with Remus to spend it with Lily on her birthday.
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~~~~~Kat007