A/N: I feel like I should give sort of explanation for this chapter; James knows that Lily could kill him, not physically, but emotionally, and I think he loves her for not. I'm a little scared that that's unclear in the chapter, so let me know what you think, alright? Thanks you guys :)
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
four: peach
He loves her because she bruises easily.
She has so many spots adorning her skin that, sometimes, it worries him. They range in color and size: a purple one on her foot where she bumped against her trunk, a bronze one on her elbow where she knocked it into the desk.
Sometimes he thinks these are just excuses and that she's hiding something, something big from him; then he sees her thigh clank against the couch and he realizes just how easily she bruises, like a peach.
On some days, he thinks, rather morbidly, that it would be so easy for someone to hurt her. They could lift her up in one hand and simply crush her entire body; he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
It sickens him to think that, if he wasn't careful, he could hurt her like that too.
He doesn't because she's Lily Evans and she can hurt him so much more than he could ever hurt her, and he hates her for it but more than that, much more than that, he loves her for it.
