We now have the same number of reviews as Legacy and we aren't finished yet!

And this story has been up for less than two months!

I am so excited! Although it does make me sad for Legacy….

Which BTW is going to have a prequel when this one is done, I have already started it!

It won't go up till this is over and I will post a new chapter on Birth of Legacy and Beginning of Legacy to let everyone know!

Ok anyways here we go thanks for the reviews and the PM's

Chapter 26

Doggy Duties

The sunlight streamed in through the wall sized window. James couldn't believe he had slept so late in the day. It was a Saturday and they had been back in school for two weeks. He sat up and looked blearily around his room. He stretched out his legs to loosen them up.

"Grrrrr. Pffft." The lump of covers at the bottom of his bed said.

Confused, he pulled the covers aside to see a shaggy black dog laying curled up, closing his eyes to go back to sleep. James stood up and stretched, scratching the top of the dog's fluffy head.

"Up you get Pads, hungover or not I have Heads duties today." He mumbled.

The dog stood turned in a circle and flopped back down into the cushy down blankets. He was shaking his head when his door opened and Lily walked through.

"Oh, sorry James I didn't realize that you were up…Or half naked…." She said nervously as she looked away.

James looked down and realized that he was indeed in his boxerbriefs and socks. Damn he hated the morning after a firewiskey night.

"Hmmm sorry Evans. I…wait this is my room I'm not sorry." He said disgruntled

She smiled and turned back to him once he had pulled on a stray pair of uniform pants. She could not hide the wry sensual look she had on her face. His appearance threw her for a moment. He stood there, tall, toned, with his slacks barely hanging on his hips, button and zip undone, showing the pale blue fabric of his underpants. His hair was an absolute mess, laying all over the place, and his face was still creased from sleep.

"Uhm Lily, did you want something?" he asked nervously, she had been quiet for nearly a minute.

"Oh uhm yeah I." she said in a pitchy voice a little too loudly.

The dog lifted its head and whimpered at the disturbance.

"DO you have a random dog on your bed?" she said looking at the fluffy mass, confused.

"Oh well" he pushed his hand through his hair "He isn't random, he is my dog. He just usually stays in the tower or the forest or with Hagrid, you know how Hagrid is always talking about getting a puppy, well my dog keeps him company."

"Oh, I didn't know you had a dog…You never told me." She said, stepping closer to the bed to get a closer look at the massive thing, she smiled at the look of consternation on its face.

"I didn't tell you a lot of things." He shrugged

"I have never seen a dog look so irritated." She laughed. "Does he have a name?"

"Uhm, Errr, yeah it is, uhm… His name is…Sunffles that's his name, snuffles."

She smiled and scratched the dog's ears, she laughed when he rolled over so she could pet his belly, James scowled.

"Snuffles, here I would have thought you would have named your dog, Duke or Zuess, or Hercules, something that means power."

"Who are they?" he said in confusion.

"Oh, I always forget you are a pureblood, you don't know muggle lore. They are names of Gods, names that mean powerful."

"Oh..uhm did you just come in here to look at my dog or is there something that you wanted?" he said a bit rudely.

"Oh right." She shuffled her feet, embarrassed, "It is after one and our office hours started at noon, I was checking on you."

"Oh, shit. Yeah I will be right there, just, I'm sorry, I will explain later, let me get dressed, I'll be there in a second." He stammered as he started pulling clothes from the drawers.

She nodded and left the room, closing the door behind her.

"You stupid git, having her rub your stomach." He muttered smacking the dog in the side of the head before donning muggle jeans and a jumper and running out the door, leaving the dog to nap in his comfortable bed.

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His head hurt, he was irritated, he was walking back from the Ravenclaw common room, he hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch, he knew it was dinner time, he had a long night ahead of himself, he needed to talk to Lily, and he was STILL ON HEAD DUTIES!

Stupid Ravenclaw third years, getting in an argument over a damn game of chess, causing an uproar, throwing curses they has heard from older students, now one was in the hospital wing his head blown up like a balloon, and the other was in detention for the rest of the weekend and week. And their house was down 35 points, James couldn't lie though, taking away house points had been a thrill.

He moped back into the office, exhausted and sincerely hoping that Lily would help him out. He couldn't stop the smile that crept onto his face at the sight of Lily sitting crosslegged on the floor patting the head of "his dog".

"You look like you two have gotten to know each other well." He said lazily, flopping onto the sofa across from her.

"He is a sweet puppy." She cooed kissing the large wet nose of the dog.

The tail thumped and beat and the dog yelped happily. James rolled his eyes.

"Look Lily, I need a favor from you. Tonight, it's the full moon and I know I was going to do the first one, but I haven't eaten at all, and I was up with Remmy last night, he had to go home for treatment today. Is there any way you can do duty tonight? Please Lily." He said softly.

She smiled and stood.

"I had been planning on it, I was going to ask Remus to work with me because you haven't taken a break since I woke you up but when I got to your room a few hours ago Peter told me that Remus had went home for the weekend with Sirius because he was sick. It's fine though, Claire from Hufflepuff is going to work the shift with me. Just remember that you have to stay in your room here since it is the weekend and a full moon."

James nodded and smiled.

"Alright, well I don't feel up to the great hall so I am going to run to the kitchens and then come back and go to bed, thank you so much Evans."

He snapped his fingers and Snuffles padded over to his side, and he turned and left the room, he didn't notice the way her face had fallen when he called her by her surname, he didn't see the lonely look on her face, nor did he see her wipe a single tear from her cheek.