An ear shattering bang erupted from the hall next to me

"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!"

A bone chilling, merciless, laugh cut through the air like sharp knives on a cold day. A ivory white hand slowly retracted from the robes holding a wand. Aiming it at me.

"Avada Kedavra!"

Everything went black.

In a second James was sitting upright screaming bloody murder. Thank goodness he had a silencing charm around his bed. Eyes darting around the room he swiftly pulled the covers off his four poster, slipped on a robe, and went to the bathroom to splash some wet water on his face. He was drenched in sweat from head to toe. He shook his head like Sirius would and a spray of fresh sweat came spiraling off his hair across the mirror and walls of the dimly lit bathroom.

The cold water was like an electric shock through his body awakening his senses --if only he knew what electricity was--. He dabbed his face with a towel and decided he would go down to the common room and read Transfiguration Weekly.

He walked down the stairs, the sound of his feet were muffled by the slippers and extra plush carpet. He got down into the common room and went to sit in his favorite armchair that he had carved his name into fourth year.

He had gotten all comfortable laying sideways in the chair skimming the articles when he heard a soft gasp. He arched his back, and tilted him head upside down so he could get a better look at who had made the noise. It was obviously a girl since she was standing in the girl's staircase, but who was it.

She started walking slowly down seeing that he was awake and reading. The light of the fire danced across her pale skin, and sparkled against her flaming hair making it look like her hair too was part of the fire.

"James," she whispered. His body froze. He knew that voice. It was Lily. The same Lily from his dream. This frightened him. A lot. Why was Lily at his house in the dream? Who was Harry? Were they married? Were Lily and Harry married? Was Harry their son? ,and most of all, Why had Voldemort killed him? Why-----

"James?" Lily whispered again interrupting his train of thought.

"Yeah," he choked out.

"Are you crying?" she giggled.

"Why is that funny?" he asked coldly.

"Oh it's not," surprised by the intensity of his voice she took a step back. "It's just I've never seen you cry."

"Well it's not something I normally show to the public." voice softening considerably.

He straightened up in his chair and motioned Lily to come sit on his lap.

Hesitantly Lily complied. "Why were you crying?" she asked softly, squirming into a comfortable position in James' warm arms.

"Bad dream," closing his eyes trying to wash out fresh memory of the dream out of his mind.

"Bad dream?" she asked slowly.

"Yeah, why?"

"It's just because," she hesitated, "I've been having weird dreams as well. Nightmares even."

"Nightmares?" he asked perplexed that they were both having nightmares.

"Yeah," she swallowed. "Nightmares of me dying." she said letting a soft sob out.

"Don't cry Lily! Please don't cry. Your ok, your safe. I'm here Lily." he said softly whispering into her ear trying to ease the shaky sobs.

"I'm sorry,"

"Don't be sorry! Just be Lily. Just be Lily." she continued to sob while James' arms slowly went up and down her back trying to sooth her.

Five minutes later the sobbing subsided into deep breaths.

"Sorry about that. I'm not normally the one to cry over a nightmare."

"Me either. Me either."

"Do you mind if I tell you about my dream?" blinking up through her wet lashes, her eyes pleaded for confidence.

"Only if I can tell you about mine."

"Me first."

~Flashback~ Lily's Point Of View~ (she's also telling the story to James as well)

I was in this cozy little cottage. Laughing along with this man. He had short black hair, as well as the baby. The baby was about one, and he was riding around on a toy broom. He was chasing the cat around in circles. -She let out a short laugh- Then the door just blew open.

The man yelled "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!"

I heard a mirthless cold laugh coming from the doorway."Advada Kedavra!" The voice yelled. IThe green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters flare like lightning rods, and the man fell like a marionette whose strings were cut.... I felt my heart tear into two. Whoever this man was, I must have loved him more than anything. Even my own life. He had just sacrificed his own life, for mine and who I assumed to be my son. Harry.

I was just up the staris. I was screaming. I was trapped. The one who had broke the door open was opening the door to my hiding spot. Moving all the chairs and boxes I had hastily piled up to try and keep him at bay with a lazy wave of his wand. I dropped 'Harry' into the crib behind me and threw my arms wide, trying to shield my son. Anything for my son.

"Not Harry, not harry, please not Harry!" I pleaded helplessly.

"Stand aside, you silly girl... stand aside now."

I saw the face under the hooded cloak and let out another terrified scream. Voldemort. Suddenly I feared more than my son's life, but my own as well.

"Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead---"

"This is my last warning--"

"Not Harry! Please ... have mercy ... have mercy.... Not Harry! Not Harry! Please -- I'll do anything--"

"Stand aside. Stand aside, girl!"

~End Flashback~ Third Person Point of View~

"A green light engulfed me, and I could tell I was dead.... But I could still see.....

"I watched as Harry looked at Voldemort curiously. Not frightened just curious. I could tell he had no idea either of his parents were dead. He probably thought it was his father who hid beneath the cloak.

"I watched as Voldemort raised his wand to the boy. Then everything went black and I can't remember anything."

James just sat there stunned into silence. He realized he was crying again.

"James," she whispered yet again.

"Lily that was.... That was, wow."

"Scary isn't it? Seeing your own death?"

"It's just that. I had almost that same dream tonight." he marveled.

Lily turned in his arms to see his face. "The same dream?" she asked looking in his eyes to see some sort of deceit.

"Well not really," he said his voice getting panicky. One nightmare was ok, but when somebody you knew had that same nightmare. That was just impossible to ignore.

"How so?"

"Well it started out the same," determinedly looking away from her eyes. "It was just much shorter. I remember me saying 'Take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!'," Purposely leaving out that he said to Lily 'Take Harry and go!'. It made it too real.

"And then I died. Or everything went black at least, then I woke up."

Lily forcefully turned his face to look towards hers.

"Why won't you look at me?"

"Because Lily, I'm afraid."

"Afraid of what? Voldemort can't touch us here with Dumbledore. I mean it's Hogwarts for crying out loud! We're safe."

"Afraid of what these dreams could mean for us. I mean it's not just a coincidence that we see our own deaths on the same night. More or less in the same scenario. Do you see what this means?"

Lily froze looking for the implication behind his words.

"Are you asking me to marry you!" she harshly whispered.

"What? No! No, I'm saying that---"

"What are you saying James, because right now I feel the need to slap you."

"I'm trying to say that...... We're going to die. Maybe not now. Maybe not in a year. Maybe not five years. But we will be murdered. Now I'm not trying to scare you or anything but, Harry he is one of our's child. I don't know if he's both of ours or just mine. Maybe just yours. All I'm saying is that Voldemort will be looking to kill us. He already wants to kill me because I'm some 'blood traitor', and he wants to kill you because you're one of the most powerful Muggleborns that he's seen in ages.

"It's just that, I'm afraid to die." he whispered.

By now Lily had caught on that this wasn't a marriage proposal. She could never be sure with James though. It's not like he never tried that before. Actually he's tried it 137 times before.....

"It's ok to be afraid. Right now I'm terrified about what this could mean. All I know is that... That----" she choked.

"I love you." They whispered at the same time.

As they leaned in to kiss James stopped her.

"Lily?"

"What?" she breathed.

"I can't do this."

"Can't do what?"

"This! You have a boyfriend, do you not?"

Lily cringed. That was right. She did have a boyfriend. Oh well, it's not like he's know anything about it anyways.

She still advanced on James.

"Lily," he said warningly. She snapped out of her reverie and blushed. Blushed like he'd never seen her blush. She awkwardly got up of James' lap and darted up the stairs.

James chuckled. 'Well this is going to be awkward' He thought.

A week had past since Alice and Kylie's little stunt, as they like to call it. People were still giving cat calls to him whenever he walked through the hallway. At first he welcomed them and constantly bowed. Then his back started to hurt so he had to stop that. His teachers were still oblivious to all of this, and sometimes James just wished they would give him a detention or something. Anything to get out of patrols with Lily. They were always so awkward and spent in silence. Especially when they had to break up kissing couples. That had to be the weirdest......

Josh still came over to the Gryffindor Table every mealtime. He still hated James, regardless of what Lily told him. This didn't even phase James' mood. He was happy when he was with his friends. Happier than he had been in a long time. Sirius, Remus, and Peter had gone onto the 'Hating Josh' phase as soon as James was back. James thought they were just being good friends and pretending to hate Josh for his sake, then one day Josh had him cornered.

"Hey James,"

"Hey Davies," he said suspiciously. "What's this about. You hate me remember?"

"Oh James! I could never hate you. Your the most popular guy in school. Most kids idolize you! Man I idolize you."

James couldn't repress a snort. "Yeah, and I'm the Tooth Fairy," he said sarcastically.

"No seriously man, your a legend on the pitch! Do you think you could give me a few pointers?"

Wow this guy must be an idiot. I wonder how Lily can stand to have a conversation with him. I mean how thick could he get.

"No." he simply stated and started walking to Transfiguration.

"Aw come on!"

"Nope, sorry. I would but----"

James and Josh just walked in silence for a few minutes. James thinking about Josh's stupidity, and Lily's patience for the guy. While Josh was trying to think up another way to get James to crack.

When they were about to the others Josh stupidly asked another question.

"Come on James! Why not? I mean what's the worst that could happen? You guys lose a game. Not the end of the world. I mean we lose all the time. I'm still standing aren't I?"

James rolled his eyes. Like that would be able to crack him. This guys knew nothing about kissing up.

"No Josh. For the last time. I will not point shave for you." he said a little louder than necessary.

He was lucky enough for his friends to hear the last line. James snickered then walked over to Sirius.

Lily walked over to Josh, shoulders squared, mouth pressed into a thin line, and face furious.

Lily was a veryproud Quiddich fan. She took pride in her team, and often was the reason why many were sitting in detention during a game. Though she never took out the players, she always reserved a nice spot for them in Filch's office after the game. She was known to, erm, over-exaggerate when it came to Quidditch.

"Josh," she said sternly.

"Yes sweetie," he called.

"Oh stop being such a suck up. How could you ask something like that of James? Of any Quidditch player for that matter?"

"Oh come on Lily! We're in last place this year! Behind Hufflepuff!" he whined.

"And what's that supposed to mean? Behind Hufflepuff? They're not stupid you know."

"Well-- you know---" he stuttered.

"No I don't know, please enlighten us all." she said acidly.

"Erm, well-- you see-- they're Hufflepuffs!!!"

She waited impatiently tapping her foot.

"Renee never gives me this much trouble," he mumbled almost incoherently.

"What does Renee have to do with the Hufflepuffs?"

"Nothing," he muttered.

"Then what did you say about her?"

"That she never gives me trouble when I talk about Quidditch."

"Why should she?"

"No reason."

"No Josh, everything happens for a reason. What's this reason, is the question I'm asking you."

"You know if you don't answer me right now, we're through." she threatened.

"She's my other girlfriend." he confessed loudly enough for everyone to hear this time.

"I figured that much," Lily shrugged, barely phased by the confession, "How long?"

"Since the night I asked you out."

"The whole time?" Lily asked softly. "You were cheating on me the whole time! When she was already taken?!? Do you even remember that night at all?" her anger changing into something much deeper than Quiddtich.

"Yeah," he said softly. "I'm sorry Lily." he said trying to take her hand.

She yanked her hand out of his and stormed away.

"You disgust me," Lauren spat and ran after Lily.

Alice stomped up to him and gave him a nice hard punch in the face. She heard the distinct crack, and was him stagger back from the force of the punch, smiled and skipped back to Frank, clearly satisfied with her punch.

You could hear Lily's footsteps echoing against the marble flooring, Lauren's not far behind. Lily ran, ran, and ran until she was out of breath. She skidded to a halt on the 6th floor. Lauren would have ran into her, if Lily hadn't moved to the side.

"Oh Lils! I'm so sorry!"

"It's not your fault Lor,"

"I'm such a horrible best friend!" she ranted.

"No your not."

"Yes I am! I should have known he would cheat on you. I mean that's what best friend's are for! They're supposed to be the one who beats up the ex! Alice already broke his nose, so I can't do any physical harm to him. It would be to cliche." she decided.

"Really Lor---"

"Oh, I could still hurt Renee. I wonder if I could get a muggle baseball bat by owl."

"Lauren! You are not going to attack Renee with a baseball bat! It's not your fault that he cheated on me either. He said it was from the start. There wasn't anything you could do about it."

"Well, if your going to ruin all the fun---- Let's just skip class and go to the kitchens?"

"Sure," Lily sniffled.

"I want some double chocolate chip chocolate cake." Lily declared.

"Don't worry. We'll have the elves put some extra chocolate chips on it."

"Sounds good to me."

"Let's skip," Lauren said randomly.

"What are you--- aahh!" Lily yelled as she started to get dragged by the arm by a skipping Lauren.

"I warned you." she taunted.

"Not soon enough." Lily grumbled.

"The elves are waiting." Lauren sang.

Lily sped up her own skip now dragging Lauren along with her as soon as she finished her sentence.

"Haha, sucker. Come on slow poke."

A/N: Ok, I know it's been like a WHOLE WEEK since I've posted!!!!!!!!! I'm sorry! I should post more often........ Then again I only post if you REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!! So please review! I NEED 10 REVIEWS AT THE LEAST FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love you all lots! (If you review that is),

Brittney/Sirius' Sweetheart