Title: Knowing Me, Knowing You

Pairing: Lily x James

Characters: James Potter and Lily Evans Potter.

AN: This story was very, very inspired by the song Knowing Me, Knowing you by Abba. I feel like such a Swedish stereotype for typing that but it's the truth and it's a damn good song. This story can be read as a part of Prongs. I would say that this took place at the end of Prongs before Voldemort attacked the Potters. This is very, very short. It may seem odd that I'm posting this one here but I didn't want to post it on Prongs and I didn't know where else to put it.

Word Count: 640

Everything was different. How odd that it only took a few seconds for their world to turn upside down.

They sat silently on either side of the living-room. Lily's red hair was pushed back in a ponytail and her green eyes were bloodshot. James knew that he looked as tired as she did and for a very good reason. Normally his body would tremble from energy that he had been unable to release. But this time he sat completely still as the heavy emotions made it impossible to move his body.

"I don't love you anymore." Lily said after a few moments of silence. It was the second time she had told him that. It didn't hurt quite as much that time. He knew what it meant. He knew that there were other words following that sentence that she had yet to find courage to say. "I think we should break up."

He didn't want to say the words that was just ont he tip of his tongue. Maybe he wouldn't have if he wasn't so tired.

"I think you're right," James nodded as he leaned his head onto his crossed arms. He looked at the floor just in front of Lily and hoped that she would believe that he was looking at her. "Do you think we would have stuck together if you hadn't gotten pregnant?"

He half expected her to look at him as if he had insulted her. Or worse, as if James had insulted Harry. But to his surprise Lily shook her head. "Knowing me and knowing you, I would have to say no. Eventually we would have driven each other crazy and if we didn't have Harry we wouldn't have had any reason to fight for us the way we have the last few months."

Fight for us the way we did. James didn't really know if he would call what they had been doing fighting. Well, at least not fighting for their relationship. But he didn't say that out loud. That would definitely make them fight again.

James nodded. "Breaking up would have been the best thing to do."

Those words were followed by silence. They were done arguing. They were done screaming at each other. They were done trying to act as if they were still in a relationship when they both knew that it was over. There was nothing else they could do. After years of being in a relationship with each other, after years of saving each other from real and imaginary dangers their relationship had come to an end.

"I did love you," James eventually said and took a deep, shaky breath. "I loved you so much."

There was another moment of silence when all you could hear was their raggedy breathing. James waited for her to say something, anything.

"I'm sorry," Lily whispered brokenheartedly. James looked up at her. He saw the red hair, the green eyes and the smile that still enchanted him. They had been hiding for so long, they had been fighting for almost equally long and still she was one of the most beautiful people he knew. It didn't matter that she was surrounded by an aura of exhaustion. "This isn't easy for me to say and I'm really sorry."

"Breaking up is never easy," He moved over to her side of the room until his arms were around her shoulders. She cried on his shoulder and he could feel her body shaking against his. "And I'm sorry too."

"Things have really changed now," Lily whispered and James nodded.

"Yeah," he whispered. Everything was different. James forced himself to smile. The fact that things were different didn't mean that it would get worse. "But knowing me and knowing you, we'll be able to turn this around in no time. It'll be okay, Lily. I promise."

The end