"Do you think Sirius will mind?" Lily asked as she snuggled closer to James. The black haired boy looked down at the girl beneath his arm and smiled. He kissed the top of her head.

"Not if he knows how much I like you." James replied softly.

Lily nodded a bit unsure, but hoped James was right. Together they continued towards the Head Dorms in silence, thinking about nothing and everything, enjoying each others company. When they finally reached the portrait hole James hesitated before saying the password, when they walked in they were met by silence, and it seemed as if the tension steadily got worse and worse.

"I said stay away from my sister!" Sirius growled suddenly as Lily and James stood there awkwardly.

"Sirius, it… I mean, I really like James." Lily said softly. James grasped her fingers in his own.

"Padfoot, mate, y'know I wouldn't hurt her." James said as Lily finished. Sirius simply growled at them before getting to his feet and storming into the bathroom. Mars looked concerned.

"I'll go talk to him." She said almost reluctantly. She got to her feet and walked into the bathroom, closing the door softly behind her. "Sirius, don't pretend you didn't know this was eventually going to happen."

"And do you know what I also know is going to happen, he'll hurt her, just like I said Remus would. I don't want Lily dating my friends, they are stupid and horny." Sirius grumbled, Marlene smiled at him.

"Well you could look at this as a positive thing." Mars said as she started to unbutton her cardigan.

"Yeah, how?" Sirius asked moodily.

"Well, while Lily is off with James, I can be with you." Marlene said, she threw her cardigan aside as Sirius looked up at her, just as she pulled her top off.

"I think I can live with that."

A loud moan from the bathroom made Lily shudder.

"Are they ever not fooling around?" Lily asked, she was a bit disappointed to be honest, knowing there was so much more to her brother. James smiled at her, he kissed her shoulder softly.

"He does in the late of night, when he thinks no one else is listening, even her. " he whispered to her, so no one else would know the deep secret that he himself wasn't meant to know, but he knew he could trust Lily.

"How do you know?" Lily asked quietly as the other amused themselves.

"I heard him once, never heard Sirius be that deep with anyone, never heard him say half the things he did that night, but I never told him I had heard him, he'd be embarrassed." James informed her quietly.

"Why are you telling me?" Lily asked.

"Because I have a feeling you know what he might have said, not that I'm going into any detail." James said. "Not my place."

Lily smirked at him.

"You're such a Gryffindor." Lily said teasingly.

"Oh, really." James asked, raising his eyebrows, a devilish smirk on his face as he looked down at his small girlfriend. He bowed his head so that his mouth was right next to her ear. "I could think of some very Un-Gryffindor-ish thing that I'd like to do to you." He practically growled into her ear, sending shivers down her spine.

Lily wriggled slightly in her place between James legs with her back rested against his chest; she smiled to herself and leaned up to kiss him lightly.

"Maybe you should have been a Slytherin." Lily said teasingly.

"Oh but it wouldn't be nearly as much fun to make you squirm." James replied softly, still whispering into her ear.

"Whatever." Lily giggled, before she closed her eyes and listened to the conversation around her.

When Lily opened her eyes again it was dark and silent, except for the soft breathing around her. She also noticed that there was a pair of warm arms wrapped around her waist. She turned and could just make out James' face in the darkness; she lifted his wrist up and squinted at the small watch.

It was 2am.

Bugger.

Now she was awake she didn't feel tired at all. She knew it would be useless to try and get back to sleep.

So as quietly and as carefully as she could manage she pulled James' arms from around her waist, she cringed when he made a small snuffling noise, hoping she hadn't awoken him, and then carefully slid out from under the duvet that was lying over them.

When finally she was free she stood up and looked around, she and James were the only one's left, she smirked.

Whores.

She decided she was awake, and bored and the only person she wanted to talk to was asleep – so wake him up.

At first she prodded him carefully, but he did not stir, so then she shook him.

"James!" Lily hissed, shaking him harder.

Finally he opened his eyes with a yawn.

"What you doing up?" He asked rubbing at his eyes, and squinting as his glasses lay on the coffee table.

"I woke up." Lily replied cheerfully, sitting down cross legged and smiling at James, she noticed then that James was only wearing boxers, and she was only wearing her knickers and t-shirt/dress, she assumed one of the girls had taken her jeans so she'd be more comfortable.

"I noticed that one, Twitch. I mean why aren't you still sleeping. Nightmare?" Lily wrinkled her nose.

"Lily. And I didn't have a nightmare, I just woke up." Lily said.

"Fine, Lily." James sighed. "After waking up you decided to wake me up because…?"

"I was bored." Lily replied grinning sheepishly.

James rolled his eyes.

"Because you were bored. Of course." James said smirking.

"You don't have siblings do you?" Lily asked smiling.

"No, I don't" James said lying back down, crossing his arms behind his head.

"I can tell, Regulus and Sirius are never this grumpy if I wake them up because I'm bored." Lily informed him.

"I'm not grumpy." James replied.

"Uh huh." Lily said rolling her eyes.

"How often do you wake up because you're bored?" James asked.

"Not often, just when I've gone to bed early." Lily answered with a small smile.

There was silence for a moment before James spoke again.

"Do you think about your mum a lot?" James asked quietly.

"All the time." Lily replied in no more then a whisper. "I miss her, but Catherine isn't bad, she's really nice, and I know she doesn't want to replace my mum, just as she doesn't want dad to try and replace Sirius' and Regulus' dad."

"What was your mum like?" James asked softly.

"Amazing, in the way only mums can be, but you never really realise it until their not around. She used to put a hot water bottle at the end of my bed every night so that my feet wouldn't get cold, and if I was ill she made me lots of hot chocolate with marshmallows, but only let me have it once I'd swallowed my cough medicine or any other foul liquid I had to drink." Lily told him.

"She sounds nice." James said softly grabbing Lily's hand in his own.

"She was. And she was beautiful, dad tells me I'm the carbon copy of her, but really she just had something about her that was so much more beautiful." Lily smiled fondly as she remembered her mum.

"I never realised how lucky I was to have my parents, both my parents, until I met Padfoot, who had lost his dad. I was friends with him even before his dad died, he was a nice guy, and it devastated Padfoot and Reggie when their dad died. The he comes back to Hogwarts for his second year and tells me his mum has met someone. His name was David, he had two daughters, the older one was a waste of space, but the younger one had this little spark about her." James said with a laugh. "He talked about you all the time, like you were the most important thing in the world. I guess he always had Regulus, but he knows Regulus can look after himself, you however, were this tiny little muggle girl who was thrown into this big world of magic, and he wanted to protect you."

"I don't need protecting." Lily said with a little pout, but really she'd never felt so loved by her brother.

"He's terrified that one day you're really going to grow up and not need him any more y'know." James told her quietly.

"I know." Lily said softly. "I just wish I could really make him see I'm not a little girl anymore."