So the next two chapters are going to be formatted a bit weirdly. They are going to bounce back and forth between day and night, James and Lily together, and then what is happening with their friends.

Let me know if it is hard to keep up with it and I will change the style before the next chapter goes up!

Hmmmm I don't think I have much to add so we shall get right to it.

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Chapter 14

Detentions and Dates

The high from the first Quidditch match had lasted two weeks at least but now, nearly a month out, the castle was falling back into its calm (well as calm as a castle filled with 300 or more hyper, hormone riddled teens ever is) ways of life.

Today was the first extremely cold day and the group of eight Gryffindors felt like they were freezing as they trooped towards the icy greenhouses. At least today they would be using portable fire to heat the plants.

"My balls are freezing off, if you knocked them together right now they would shatter." Sirius complained as he shuffled behind everyone else.

"Well, keep your hand off them, and they won't bump into each other." Hestia said wisely before rushing into the cover of the classroom as everyone else was gasping for breath through their laughter.

Sirius sidled into his place beside James and behind Hestia and Marleen with a sour look on his normally happy face. Marleen was powdering her nose, watching them from her compact.

"Oh how I miss the days when I only had to worry about three arse holes thinking about my little boy parts, now all of our sixth year class in concerned." He muttered sarcastically.

James snickered but the girls didn't miss a beat,

"That's about what I heard, little boy parts is right, about the size of a seven year old." Marleen stage whispered.

Unfortunately for the four of them Professor Humphrey was not amused, and when James slid sideways off his stool howling with unrestrained laughter and Hestia accidentally lit the Strangling sapling on fire as she lost control of her fire due to her snorts of hysteria he kicked them all out with detentions to match. James still could not breathe right and Hestia sounded like she was choking. Sirius looked murderous but it didn't help when he had flung a tickling jinx at Marleen and it bounced off of the mirror of her compact in her hand and hit him instead, so he was barely crawling from the doorway, gasping for air. The remaining four watched their friends leave, grinning like mad. Even Lily couldn't hold back her giggle when James had hit the floor in a fit of girl like giggles.

"Well that was a right fun way to legally ditch class, what shall we do next?" James said gleefully as Hestia produced the counter charm for Sirius.

"Is that really what they say? Because I will show you right now!" Sirius yelled as soon as he was able. It through James into another fit of laughter as Sirius started pulling his robes off and undoing his belt.

"Siri, out here in the freezing cold is not the smartest place to show off your buddy there…He might not live up to expectations right now." He said between laughs.

"Or he probably will." Hestia said with a nod and a smirk.

Sirius glared at both girls, grabbed them by the hands and pulled them shrieking into the castle. James followed at a slower pace. He was pretty certain that he didn't want to see what Sirius was about to do.

Sure enough as he walked into the side entrance Sirius was holding his pants up around his waist, red faced and being yelled at by McGonagall. Apparently she had been walking to the great hall with her third year class when Sirius had, provided evidence for his side of the story.

Both Marleen and Hestia were red faced and could not stop giggling, every third year girl in the hall was flushed and looked scandalized while the boys all were looking downtrodden at their feet.

"James Potter, your belt had better be fastened tightly around that waist so help me Merlin!" she shouted as he came to a halt beside his beet red best friend.

"Er, yes Ma'am they usually are…" he said slowly as if wondering about her mental state.

"Detention, all four of you. Tonight." She said angrily.

"What! But my pants are up!" "But we didn't even do anything!" Hestia, Marleen and James all cried out together.

"You two looked, and I know you have something to do with this Potter. All of you, my classroom, eight oclock tonight!"

"Erm, we already have detention tonight from Herbology…" Sirius muttered.

The Professor rolled her eyes and walked away.

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James was walking back from scrubbing down flower pots alone and without magic when a sound to his right made him jump. He smiled as Lily burst out laughing as she came running from behind the store house all bundled up, her breath forming a mist in front of her.

"Hey pretty girl, what are you doing out here?" he said happily as she snaked her arm through his.

"I think you know exactly what I was thinking." She said suggestively, and without another word James chased after her as they ran off to a specific, secret corridor.

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The room was small today, just a fire and three overly large beanbag chairs, some overstuffed pillows on the plush red carpet and a few really thick, furry blankets. It was warmer than usual as well. James waited for her to enter through the small opening and rushed in behind her. It didn't take her long to figure out why the room was so much warmer.

James leaned against her from behind and kissed her neck. His lips and nose felt frozen. Not to mention, his clothes were soaking wet.

"James you are freezing." She said in alarm, as she turned to look at him.

She put her hands on both of his cheeks to warm them. They were red and chapped, his chin was quivering.

"I should have let you go back to the dorm. You are going to get sick."

He shook his head and pecked her on the lips, his own trembling.

"Nnnnnnooooo I want to be here with you. I always want to be here. I-I-I'll be fffffffiiiiinnnnne." He stammered.

"Well, we have to get you warm before you get sick, come here." She said, taking him into her arms.

But she only managed to get her own clothes damp. Her light pink Tshirt turned transparent in the middle.

"But first this has got to go." She started unbuttoning his shirt and pulling the tails out from the slacks.

"E-Evansss if you wanted me naked you only had to a-a-askk." He chattered.

"Shut up you prat, help me get these wet things off of you."

He quit playing around as she pulled his wet uniform shirt from his body and threw it on the floor by the fire. All he could do was stand and watch as she pulled his cotton Tshirt over his head. It wasn't until she had moved her hand to his belt and was fumbling with it that he remembered how to speak.

"I think we should leave the slacks, leave the slacks." He said nervously turning a ferocious red.

She giggled and moved her hands to his impossibly flat stomach.

"Silly I have seen you in swim trunks, boxer can't be that much different."

If it was possible, his face got redder.

"Uhm, I wear boxer briefs…They are different…Tighter…They uhm…don't hide much…better for sports you know…"

She rolled her eyes and leaned close to his ear.

"They can't show more than my bikini did."

He grinned and kissed the side of her head where he could reach.

"Oh if you only knew." He muttered.

"Well you can't keep those on, they are all wet. What did he have you doing down there?"

"I was cleaning the pots. All of them, the little ones and the huge stone ones, I had to use a muggle hose as I wasn't allowed to use magic. I am not good with a hose. I am fine in these, they will dry."

"What you need is a pair of warm pants."

As if the room was listening, a pair of red and black track pants appeared on the sofa. Lily smiled and handed them to him before turning around so he could change without blushing.

It wasn't even a minute later that she felt his warm bare arms around her shoulders. And he buried his face in her neck kissing the whole time. He turned her to face him and pulled her against his cold skin.

"You are freezing." She said, rubbing her hands on his arms.

"You are hot." He replied with a twinkle in his eye.

She laughed before grabbing on of the fluffy blankets and throwing it in front of the fire. She sat down on it and pulled him with her instantly morphing it into a kiss as he laid her back.

The skin on her stomach felt like it was being electrocuted where his hand pushed her simple shirt up to under her bra line. His strong icy fingers traced shapes above her belly button. The intense cold, mixing with the anticipation and sheer lust she felt for him was driving her crazy as she pulled him into an earth shattering kiss.

He forgot to breathe for a second when she placed her hands on his waist and pushed the band of his pants low on his hips, exposing the lowest muscles on his abdomen, she ran her warm fingertips softly over them and when she leaned up and licked his hipbone he almost fainted. It wasn't until he was lightheaded that he remembered to breathe.

Now James was not a virgin, he hadn't been since the beginning of fifth year, but this, this was all new. Lily made him feel in ways he didn't know was possible. She made his mind go completely blank so it was like learning everything all over again.

They had been like this together a couple of times now, but never this heavy, and never missing this many clothes. By the time she pulled away gasping for air and checking the time and James was now drenched in sweat, the cold a long forgotten memory.

They walked back to the common room, chatting animatedly, James merely grimaced when they ran into Slughorn and Lily had to tell him she had found James roaming and was escorting him back to the common room. This was the third detention he could boast that he had gotten for this cause. Heh, every once in a while it was best to take one for the team, he thought.

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It was early, really early. And it was Sunday. He hadn't gotten back in until well after three in the morning and the sun had yet to rise but there he was being suffocated with a pillow by one Sirius Black.

"I am tired of being taken advantage of James Potter, you will tell me who this bird is or I am going to kill you myself." He said, struggling to hold his friend to the bed.

"hhmmohhh ammphhhh iiughhhhh ttmpmmmhhhh aammmmmyoouuuppmmmmpphh"

"Sorry, what was that now?" Sirius said sweetly as he pulled this pillow off James' head.

"How am I taking advantage of you?" He said, obviously confused.

"Well, I am stopping everyone from looking for you, I haven't gone off searching, and you are spending more time with whoever this is than you are with us. I want answers, who is this partner in crime? I know it isn't Soaryn because the cardigan and tie were Gryffindor, and I accidentally, accidentally mind you, heard you saying goodnight as you came up the steps last night in the middle of the night.

Don't you think I deserve to know?" Sirius whimpered.

"No, no I do not, and you shouldn't eavesdrop it isn't attractive."

"Just, well tell me about her, what is she like? Are you just doing it? Or do you really like her? And why the bloody hell, are you being so secretive about it!" he said before flinging himself sideways and landing beside James on his bed.

James glanced around to see that the two late rising marauders still sleeping soundly in their beds. He huffed and rolled to face his best friend.

"She is crazy amazing." He said with a big grin.

"In bed or in general?" Sirius said with a wink.

"Haha, we haven't had sex thank you for asking. She is just amazing. At first, well at first we were just snogging like mad but these last few times there has been less groping and more talking."

"Too bad mate." Sirius joked as James punched him in the arm.

"No, I mean, that isn't a bad thing. I like her…A lot, more than she likes me. It is a secret because she wants it to be. You don't think she is ashamed to be with me do you?" he muttered, knowing that Sirius wouldn't tease him over his fear.

"Jamie, at least four girls ask you out a week. You have Soaryn practically dangling at your whim. I doubt she is embarrassed. Girls are weird maybe her friend has a crush on you or something and she doesn't want to start a fight?"

"I highly doubt that one…She is without a doubt the best snog I have ever had by far though. Merlin, I think about her all time…" he faded off as his thoughts drifted off to the room of requirement, the last few weeks rolled through his mind.

Lily kissing his back and shoulders, the last time when he had trailed kisses across her stomach. It felt like her giggles had made his heart jump to this throat and stay there. They had talked for the better part of three hours last night, he wasn't sure if the memory made him happy or sad…

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They had been playfully kissing and tickling each other since they got into the room. Lily was laughing like mad, stood up and ran across the room from him. Intending to catch her and pin her down he stood, turned to pounce and she pulled him up short by pulling her wand.

He froze, the only reasonable thing to do when Lily Evans had her wand pointed at her. She grinned mischievously and he saw her wrist flick and felt his shirt disappear all together, leaving him standing in his uniform slacks, he just looked at her with a look of mingled shock and amusement on his face.

"Alright, we can play this way if you want." He growled playfully before pulling his own wand and swishing it in her direction.

Her face was priceless when she was left standing in her purple undershirt and stringy purple panties. She looked stunned and nervous until she noticed that James had rendered himself speechless. He dropped his wand and walked over to her. He remembered grabbing the bottom seam of her shirt and pulling her against him, feeling her body, the most naked it had ever been against him.

He had kissed her lips once and the began to trail kisses down her chin and neck, he had pushed the little elastic straps to the side and kissed her bare shoulders. She whimpered as he let his mouth wander lower onto her collarbone. He let his hands trace along the outside line of her breasts and gripped her by the hips pulling her against him.

He kissed his way down her arm as he dropped to his knees and pushed her shirt above her belly button and he kissed her lower stomach, right above her panty line. Her knees quivered and she leaned into him.

And everything overwhelmed him in that moment. He stopped kissing and let his head rest against her stomach. He didn't move for several minutes, just inhaling everything that was Lily, the cotton scent that clung to her skin and the light lavender of her shampoo or soap, The faint smell of stale ink that always stained her fingers and left arm. He was still for so long that she noticed. She pushed her hands through his thick hair and used it to pull his head back so she could look into his face.

"Something wrong?" she said timidly.

He shook his head and placed another kiss on her pale skin before pulling her down so she was sitting on his lap and straddling him.

"Come to Hosmede with me next weekend." He said softly, hope lacing his voice.

She looked ran her fingers down his cheek.

"James, we might as well shout to the world about what we are doing if we go on a date."

"Well shout it then, I am alright with that." He replied as he kissed her neck softly.

She giggled at his response.

"James, we have talked about this. You aren't supposed to be asking me out. Ask Soaryn, Merlin knows you could shag her if you smiled at her at this point. She is head over heels for you. Maybe you should start talking more to her…This…what we are doing…It probably isn't the best idea…Maybe we should stop." She said uncertainly.

He gripped her closer, holding her into his lap by her hips.

"No, no I don't want to stop. We are fine, I just like spending time with you. We are good together. And Soaryn isn't like that. We aren't like that, like this. Sirius, he likes her a lot and I don't want to date someone he likes. I just, its fine. Maybe we can meet though? Like at the Broomsticks as friends, with everyone else of course." He said quickly.

"James, we aren't good together as a couple. We are when we are alone, or when we are like this, but we would kill each other in days if we were to date. And I like this, I like being with you. If we date we will never be able to be the same together when we break up. I am happy you are my friend. I like us this way. But we can't do this if you don't like it this way too."

"Don't worry about it Lils, I love it this way. Don't think about it anymore, just kiss me ok." He said quietly pulling her into his kiss.

It was a sweet kiss, timid and nervous, James had unintentionally tipped their perfect balance.

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"Jamie…Earth to Jamie…Did I lose you?" Sirius said, poking his shoulder.

"Right, sorry. I um actually need a favor from you." He replied.

Sirius just looked at him, waiting for the rest of the thought to come out.

"I need you to seduce Soaryn into going to Hogsmede with you by the next visit."

Sirius looked at him in disbelief.

"That is in 8 days...Mate, that bird is totally wrapped up in you. She will never agree to date me. And hello, why are you wanting her to?"

"Well, I just need…this other girl…TO see that there isn't anyone else. You don't have to date Soaryn, just make her see how much better it would be to have a guy fawning over her and stuff. You can go out with her and snog her and then just do what you always do and get on their nerves until they break it off. You have to admit, she is effing gorgeous, and she is a great girl, you won't be miserable I swear. Please Padfoot." He begged.

"Mate, you are off your rocker. But I will do it…On one condition. If I succeed and she goes with me, you have to tell me who this secret girl is. And we will call it even."

James looked at him completely flabbergasted.