I don't like them fighting! So I'll make it short and get them back together quick. Please don't skip ahead. It will ruin it.
Chapter 27: Forth day
"LILY!" James yelled up the stairs.
"Did you hear that?" Ivy asked.
"I think James is calling." Mary said.
"I'll talk to him." Jamie offered. Mary and Ivy looked at her.
"No." they said together.
"Well I don't want to talk to him." Lily said.
"LILY!" James yelled again.
"Than it's decided." Jamie said moving toward the door.
"No!" Mary and Ivy shouted at the same time again. "Lily."
"Let her talk to him." Lily said. He hadn't tried to talk to her in over a week. He deserved this.
"Lily." Mary warned.
"Are you crazy?" Ivy demanded.
"This is going to go bad." Mary said. Lily shrugged. Jamie grinned leaving the room. Lily sat at the top listening to them.
"Where's Lily?" James asked Jamie.
"She doesn't want to talk to you."
"Well I don't want to talk to you. Please go get Lily."
"No. I don't think so." Jamie said.
"Jamie please."
"James. No."
"Fine. Could you just tell her that I'm sorry?"
"She doesn't want to hear it Potter." Jamie told him. It felt good to say it to his fat head.
"If I could tell her I would. But she won't talk to me."
"You haven't tried to talk to her." Jamie corrected.
"I'm trying now!"
"It's too late. You can't just ignore her for a week and then expect her to come crawling back to you."
"I'm not expecting her to be crawling. Walking is fine! I just need to talk to her."
"I'll pass it along." Jamie told him.
"No you won't."
"Are you passing that up? Really? Look around Potter, you don't have many options here." James ran a hand through his hair.
"Jamie, get me Lily."
"This sounds familiar." Jamie says. "You say 'get Lily' I say...'No'."
"Fine. Tell Lily that I made a mistake. I should have talked to her sooner. I should have told her. I can't tell you, but I want to tell her now."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why didn't you try to talk to her over Christmas break?"
"I don't know."
"Wrong answer. Potter. Wrong answer." Lily went back into the room.
"He wants to tell me now." Lily told Ivy and Mary.
"Are you going to go down and see what it is?" Ivy asked. Lily shook her head.
"No."
"Why not?" Mary asked.
"He had no reason for not talking to me Mary. I know it sounds stupid and petty. But he just didn't even try. Jamie asked him and he didn't know."
"Well that was stupid of him," Mary began.
"There's no excuse. He's still just as arrogant as ever. He thinks he can have whatever he wants." Lily cut in. "Well. He's wrong. Big time."
DAY 1:
There was a Quidditch match that afternoon against Ravenclaw. James was ready with his team while Lily was being dragged down to the pitch by Mary and Ivy. Mary was going to cheer on Sirius and Ivy was going to make Lily talk to James. He wanted to apologize. Ivy was making Lily hear it. Jamie was boycotting the match. Because of this she made a Slytherin friend.
"I don't want to talk to him." Lily argued.
"You have to."
"I don't have to do anything."
"Hurry! Sirius will be coming out soon." Mary shouted back to them. They found seats in the stands just as the quaffle was released. Lily tried to watch. But it was hard watching as the Gryfindor team flew around. As James played as if nothing happened. When it ended, and Gryfindor won by three hundred points the whole team landed. All but Potter. He flew to the stands where Lily was sitting.
"Did Jamie pass on what I said?"
"She said you apologized." Lily confirmed.
"And?"
"Was there more?" Lily asked.
"No." James said. Lily turned to leave. "Do you forgive me?" Lily turned to James.
"For what James?" She waited. "When you figure out why I'm mad. I might forgive you." She left.
DAY 2:
Lily didn't want to go to Defense Against the Dark Arts. But when she got there, much to her relief neither James nor Sirius were there. They never showed up either. After class it was lunch. Lily ate with her friends. Explaining, for what felt like the thousandth time, that she wasn't really mad at James, and all he had to do was tell her, in person, what his stupid secret was. Even a real apology for why he never wrote or contacted her would have been necessary.
Sirius leaned over on the table beside Lily. If he said one thing, Lily decided, about James she would hurt him.
"Afternoon Lily." Lily looked at him realizing that he was the reason they were fighting. He brought up the stupid thing. "James wanted me to tell you..." Lily spit the pumpkin juice that was in her mouth at Sirius. Without another word she stormed out of the Great Hall. Sirius wiped the juice off his face.
"I should've started with don't spit on the messenger." he said wiping his eye. Lily's friends grimaced at Sirius.
"Don't pass any more messages to her from James." Mary cautioned. He smiled sarcastically nodding.
DAY 3:
In Transfigurations Lily sat in her desk noting that James was still missing. He hadn't showed up in any of his classes. He and Lily hadn't even run into each other in the castle or common room.
"Ms. Evans." McGonagall called. "Do you know where Potter is?"
"Why would I know?" she asked. The boy had been on her mind enough without people constantly bringing him up. The other night she'd had to go patrolling by herself and her friends were always asking if they were back together. She'd had enough. He was interfering with too much.
DAY 4:
Lily was on a mission. It was time she did something about her problem with James. He was making it impossible to eat, sleep or concentrate. Lily had no idea where he was, but she knew someone who did.
"Sirius Black!" Lily yelled down the corridor. Sirius looked back with a look of horror on his face. As if he knew she'd do this all along.
"Well if it isn't Lily Evans. Out for a stroll are we?"
"Where the hell is James?" she demanded.
"Prongsy? He's been out at the pitch. Refusing to come in."
"I need to talk to him now." Lily said storming off.
"Good luck with that. He won't come down." Sirius told keeping pace.
"I will make him come down." She growled.
"How are you going to do that?" Sirius challenged. "Even I can't get him to."
"Well your not me." Lily told him.
"I'd argue this point, but you seem pretty right damn determined. What's up?" Maybe it was because he was suddenly fearing for his friend's life that he was asking.
"I've had enough."
"This isn't going to go well." Sirius said. "Lily, really, for the sake of the children, don't do this."
"I don't expect you to understand this Sirius." Lily began ignoring the children thing, "But sometimes when you do stupid things, you have to make them right. I was stupid, so now I have to make it right."
"You're right. I don't get it. But shouldn't you let him cool off a bit before you two get in another blow out?"
"He's been out there how long?" Lily asked.
"Three, maybe four days," Sirius answered.
"Has he once come in?"
"Well no, but."
"He's had plenty of time." Sirius didn't say anything more as he followed Lily to the pitch. Not even as rain began to poor over the grounds. Lily marched out to the center of the stadium.
"James!" she shouted to the figure flying above her and Sirius. "JAMES POTTER! GET YOUR BLOODY ASS DOWN HERE!" He stopped looking down at them. He dove down barely missing the ground right in front of Lily. The rain was already soaking through his clothes, his hair drenched finally lying flat.
"No." he said spinning around and heading back into the sky. Sirius shoved his hands in his pockets looking at Lily expectantly.
"James!" Lily yelled. For a second she lost her determination. "JAMES! I'm...I'm sorry!" he paused in the air. "I was extremely stupid." The broom turned around again. She had his attention.
"I shouldn't have pushed you to tell me." Sirius was backing away. It was his fault after all. If he hadn't been so stubborn they wouldn't have fought. James' broom lowered a bit so Lily continued. "I can't stay mad at you. Ever. Even all those years you got on my nerves. Or when you were awful to Snape."
"Come on mate." Sirius murmured just loud enough for Lily to hear over the pelting rain.
"James! Please come down here!" Lily called up to him. The broom went down a considerable amount. But he kept his distance. "James. I love you!" Lily said.
"What!" He shouted sure he'd heard her wrong.
"You idiot! I love you!" she shouted.
"What?" Sirius shouted.
"I love him!" Lily repeated.
"Well alright then." Sirius said shrugging his shoulders. James jumped off his broom running toward Lily.
"You love me?" he called as he ran.
"Yes!" he caught her up in his arms.
"I love you too!" he shouted in her ear.
"Well go on! Kiss her!" Sirius ordered. So James did. "Alright, you love birds. Let's get inside. I don't want to get pneumonia." Sirius said after a minute. Lily laughed resting her forehead on James'. James kissed Lily again setting her on her feet.
"Okay. Yeah pretend like I'm not HERE!" Sirius screamed at them. "Honestly. If you get sick I don't want to hear it!"
"You can go inside without us Padfoot." James reminded him.
"Well," he scoffed. "Technically yeah. But what about you?"
"I'll be fine." James promised.
"Well I see how it is. Get yourself a bloody girl and leave me behind. I've been your brother you know!" Sirius complained. "Bloody dropped your pants in public and this is the thanks I get."
"Go away Sirius." James instructed.
"If you really don't want me..."
"Good bye Sirius." Lily added.
"They're ganging up on me." he said turning to go in. "You'll miss me when I'm gone!"
"He just doesn't get the hint." James said.
"Shut up and kiss me." Lily said pressing her lips back on his.
"I'm leaving!" Sirius shouted. "You don't care." Finally he went inside.
"So, um," Lily began, "I overreacted."
"A bit." James agreed.
"But that's behind us right?"
"Absolutely."
"So, then, let's agree never to fight again."
"Deal." he said immediately. "So then, you should know that I'm an animagus."
"What?"
"That's what Sirius was trying to get me to tell you."
"But that's illegal."
"I know. But I thought you should know."
"So your an animagi?" James nodded.
"Yeah. I turn into a stag." He told her.
"Okay." Lily said. "Can I ask you something?"
"Anything."
"Did you ever go inside?"
"No." he admitted. "I've had house elves bring me food and I've just been sleeping out here."
"But it's been freezing." Lily said. It was January, so the grounds had been frozen over, this was the first time it'd rained in months.
"Well I wasn't sleeping much anyway. So I just built a little fire and survived."
"I haven't been sleeping much either." Lily admitted.
"We're pathetic." James said.
"Speak for yourself. I at least went inside." Lily teased then shivered as a gust of wind chilled her drenched form.
"Let's go inside. Catch some sleep." James suggested. Lily found a little bit of extra warmth under his arm as they headed back inside.
So their happily together and in love. The timing was a bit off, but (I should've mentioned this, but I'm saying it now) Lily realized in those four days of not seeing James that she can't stand to be away from him, and after years of denying it, she does love him. Review!