AN: I do not speak German so I relied heavily on Google Translate. If any of you out there speak German and recognize errors/see things that would make more sense please message me or leave a review. It would be greatly appreciated.

Lily looks down at the letter in her hand. She came to the right stadium, but does not know exactly where she's supposed to go. The language barrier has gotten worse over time and their letters are a mess of German and English. "Excuse me," she questioned, waving towards a woman with an access badge dangling around her neck.

"Wissen Sie, wo das Büro des Trainers ist?" Do you know where the coach's office is? Lily questions looking at the woman.

"Who are you?" she questioned with a heavy accent. "No reporters, especially not foreigners."

"I'm meeting with David Krum."

"Oh, oh…" she looked at her, clicking her tongue a few times. "Ihr seine Frau." The woman looked very excited as she looked her up and down.

"Frau?" She furrowed her eyebrows, wife, the word comes to her suddenly. "No, not…" She can't think of the word for girlfriend so she holds up her hand. "Kein ehring." No wedding ring.

"Oh, I understand." The smile doesn't leave her face. "Come, I take you to arena. Follow." She gestures and unlocks the door to let her in and take her to the door. "You find it easy."

Lily looks around. The facility does not look much different from the one in London and is reminded instantly of when she was dating Scorpius. It was mostly the same, but she didn't act the same as she did with Scorpius. Living at Durmstrang she could avoid the tabloids easily. When she was with him, the German team wasn't that popular so the coach's girlfriend didn't garner a lot of attention. They just made sure before they left for some publicized event she was dressed so she didn't attract attention. David understood her want of privacy; whereas, Scorpius saw it as a fact of life and thought it would be best to make a good impression.

Coming to the outside door she was greeted by bright light and immediately saw the players in the air. Walking this back brought her back ten years ago when she was at Hogwarts and flying out herself. David she heard before she saw him. She didn't quite understand what he was saying. With him gone, she no longer had one on one tutoring with German language. Emma, Nikolas, and Jakob helped her with Russian and now she could read the basics in it.

"Hallo, mein leibling." David waved at her before going back to them.

My love, she translated in her head looking up towards the sky. She didn't know what was going on but a bludger as flying around, one of the men didn't see it. Her eyes widened as he was knocked off getting ready to act with her hand going to her wand that as attached to her waistband.

"Stop," David ordered.

"I'm a healer, heiler."

"I know, but don't do anything now." His voice seems a little off, slightly more accented which is to be expected. "Go," he said once they touched down.

Lily walks over to the man that was hit by the bludger. "Hallo… Ich bin ein Heiler. Kann ich Ihre Schulter?"

"Nein…Are you Lily?" he questions, speaking slowly.

"Please, I…" She thinks about the words to say, but the ones that would make sense don't come to her. "I want to help you."

"Lily, it's fine." He turns to them and gives them instructions in fast paced German before they take off to the changing rooms. When David sees her, Lily's mouth is pursed tightly as she looks at him. "Is something the matter?"

"That's exactly how you injured your shoulder. You better than anyone else know that you have to be careful when it comes to those damn bludgers."

"Lily, it's a delicate situation. Unless he consents to it, the only person that can ask him to submit to a—"

"Physical examination is you if you believe that they have been injured. I believe he was injured!"

David sighed. "I do not wish to discuss work right now." He leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. "It has been much too long since I've seen you."

"I'm still angry, but I understand."

Lily let him wrap an arm around her shoulder and guide her inside, towards his office. She had been to a couple of games: one in London, and one in Bulgaria. Whenever she comes to Germany they spend most of the time at his flat or David shows her around. More often than not he is the one that comes to Durmstrang for a mini vacation. The school is isolated and the cottage peaceful.

"Let's take you to my place and then we can go get some dinner, alright?" He gives her a warm smile and pulls her a bit closer. When she doesn't object the pair start walking, David telling her some things. When they stop by the office, Lily pulls away and leans against the wall as he unlocks the door. "Look, it's a key."

It makes Lily laugh at how amused he is by muggle things. When she opens her mouth to comment further she finds herself interrupted by a load, baritone voice. "David, das ist deine Freundin?"

Lily was almost positive that he asked David if she was his girlfriend, like the woman outside he was curious. "Ja, bin ich," Lily said, taking a step forward, her head tilted as she watched David look between them before heading inside with a shrug of the shoulder.

"Es freut mich, Sie kennen zu lernen. Ich bin Oscar."

Lily tried to dismantle the sentence in her mind. She was almost positive he said, it's nice to meet you. My name is Oscar. The words were basic and familiar, but she wasn't used to his accent. "Lily," she said, thinking it would be easier to just say that as she held out her hand.

The man said it and gave her a wavering smile. It clicked in her head that he addressed David simply because his English was either as bad as her German or he simply didn't speak it. When David appeared with a satchel on one shoulder he talked with the man for a bit and gave him a hardy slap on the shoulder.

"Oscar told me to tell you that I'm a lucky guy, he thinks you're attractive."

Lily huffed. "I'm so mad at myself for letting my German slip, I barely know what's going on around her."

"It's fine." David gave her a smile and pulled her close. "I'll apparate us to my place, alright?" In a few moments there was a crack and soon enough they were in the lobby of his building. "It's a pretty much wizard only place, not very many flats."

Lily rolled her eyes, he explained it every time. His building was more like a renovated house. From the outside, especially to muggle eyes, it looked like a mansion. Inside it was clear that it was split up into the areas for tenants. "What is on the agenda for tonight?"

"I thought instead of our usual carry out and back at my place we would go somewhere nice to eat."

"If you want to eat somewhere nice outside of London it's typically muggle, are you sure you can handle that?"

"You're the one that has been living at Durmstrang for two years," he countered as they came to the door. He used the appropriate spell and it popped open. "Besides, wizards go there all the time, and the food is supposed to be great."

"What about the wine?" Lily followed him toward the bedroom and sat down on his bed. Her bag had been delivered earlier, and was sitting against the wall.

"Excellent selections." He stripped out of the clothes he wore at the pitch and turned to look at him. Lily couldn't help but smile. If anything his physique had gotten better and she couldn't wait until they retired for the evening. One thing about David is now that they were familiar with each other, he was just as tactile as she liked to be.

"Perhaps I should change too…" She got off the bed and kicked her shoes off before grabbing the hem of her t-shirt and slowly lifting it off. Then she unbuttoned her jeans and they fell down before she stepped out of them. "I've missed this." She took a step forward and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Do we have to go out?"

"Yes." He kissed her lips, arms encircling her, and hands settling on the small of her back. "I have reservations and I want this to be special." He leaned down to kiss her collarbone.

Lily pushed away from him when his lips pulled away. She went over to her bag and pulled out a navy blue dress with a deep v that she loved. It was a gift from Dom and that girl certainly knew how to shop. In her bag she pulled out a necklace that David had gotten her for her birthday last year, it was a Lily made out of silver with a few glittering jewels that appeared to look like stars when the light hit them.

"Are you about ready?"

"Give me a few more moments." She pulled her hair out of the ponytail and used her wand to fix it up a bit. The flyaway hair and tangles were quickly rid of and it cascaded down her shoulders in loose waves once tamed. She reached into her purse and slid on some dark red lipstick, then added a bit of mascara. After that came the shoes. Her favorite pair of heels that were the perfect height.

"You look fantastic."

"So do you."

He was wearing a deep red button shirt tucked into straight leg pants with a slightly loosened. "Come on, we can apparate part of the way there." Once again his arm went around her and he was the one that did it. From their secluded apparition point they walked about a block forward to where the restaurant was located. There were several cars parked across the street and when they went inside she saw several people sitting at the booths waiting.

"Reservierung fur zwei, Krum," he said as he stepped up to speak with the host.

Lily tried to tune out as she conversed. The last thing she wanted was a headache from the translating. There were a few spells she could have cast, but translation spells were never very reliable. When the moved, David reached for her hand and they followed the host to their table. It was a small booth in the corner, and he let her slide in first. They sat on the same side, a bit too close for it to be deemed acceptable, but she didn't care. The only nice thing about the restaurant was that the menu was fairly easy to read. Food was something that stuck in her brain since she had frequent practice with it. After the ordered the pair set in compensable silence, discussing work and such. Lily couldn't help but notice that David seemed a bit unsettled.

"Are you alright? You seem a bit off."

He didn't answer, their food was brought and placed in front of him. After that it seemed like that plate of food was the most engrossing thing in the world to David. Lily pushed hers around the plate. It tasted amazing but when she looked at the man next to her it turned to ash. Perhaps it was finally time to part ways. It was an odd sort of send-off, but David was like that, he probably wanted to part on amiable terms. The only man she was actually able to do that with was Jordi and they had hardly ever been anything more than friends that shagged.

"This place is nice, but why did you want to come here? Usually we hit a pub." She scraped her fork against her plate and then reached for her glass of wine she'd neglected.

"I wanted to go somewhere special." He pushed away his mostly empty plate and cleared his throat. "We have been together for nearly three years, and…" He got up from his seat and then down. Down on one knee.

"No…I…"

"Lily, please, just let me speak… Ever since I first met you… I was fine having you as a friend, and when we started dating I was content, but now I just… I want more, if you'll have me." He reached into his pocket to pull out a small box that no doubt contained a ring.

"I… Let's just finish dinner…we'll talk about this later." She looked down at her plate. "Are we splitting dinner? I'll just go pay now I need some air and I can't…"

By now David had stood up and was bending over to look at his girlfriend. Lily was pale and eyes wide with fright, panicking as she tried to grab her purse and get to her feet. "Merlin… All I have is wizard's money, did you grab any muggle money? Blimey, what sort of currency do you even use here?"

"I pay, it will be fine," he murmured. "Why don't you settle down?"

Lily clenched her eyes shut, mind whirling around. It wasn't a vision, she knew that much, but she still didn't feel quite right. "Fine," she said. "But it isn't a no, David. I love you, you know that." She seemed to curl in herself. Soon a waiter came by to ask if anything was needed. He didn't pause to take them in, but came back with a box for her dinner and the folder that held the check.

David counted out a few bills, enough to cover the check, and handed it to the waiter. "Keep the change." When Lily got out of the booth they didn't touch, but followed closely. The two only held hands when David apparated them back to their place.

Once inside Lily kicked off her heels and immediately went to the bathroom. There she pulled back her hair into a loose bun at the nape of her neck and splashed water on her face. David wanted to marry her, when just an hour ago she was wondering if he wanted to break up with her. She had never gotten to this step before. With Scorpius, if they had stayed together, she would have probably married him before she finished up at the Healer Academy. Jordi and her, there was no way she could have stayed together. Michael…She tried not to think about Michael. About how for the first time someone felt so right, so safe…If only she could have mustered up the courage to tell him the truth. But she had to stop thinking about the past, had to stop comparing every relationship to David. He didn't deserve that. No, she had to live in the present, not try to manipulate the future or live based on regrets from the past.

"Sorry about that, I just needed to clear my head…" Lily looked to where David was sitting on the couch, and had traded his button up shirt and tie for a one of his team's t-shirts. His hand was clenched in a fist. She thought that was strange until she saw the little black box sitting on the table.

"Lily you don't need to apologize. You looked like you were…" He paused and looked as if he was racking his brain. "An attack of some sort…what are those called?"

"Anxiety attack?" she supplied.

"Yes, I was worried for you and frightened that I caused it."

"No… It's hard to explain." Truth, I should tell him the truth, she thought. "Do you remember at Durmstrang how I always complained that there was no Divinations class? I don't know if I did it to, but I certainly spoke with the headmaster about it."

"Yes, but what…"

"Let me continue…" She took a deep breath. "When I was younger I used to have these terrible nightmares, they usually happened if my dad was in the field for extended periods of time or one of my family members got hurt…" Her words were becoming shaky so she focused more on her breathing. David placed a hand on her knee, but she knew that she could keep herself grounded. "When I started my third the dreams returned with a vengeance then I would start to feel things during the day. My hearing got all muffled and my vision started spinning, I would faint and have these vivid dreams and when I came too I hardly remembered them…"

"You're a seer?" he questioned. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Not very many people know. My parents, a handful of professors from Hogwarts and Scorpius."

"Scorpius?" His eyes widened.

"He was my best friend in school. My visions were unpredictable and he helped me with them. Now, they're mostly under control and fairly easy to manage. But the point is… Is ee things from the future and they make me apprehensive at times. I thought I was getting one tonight, but it was nothing."

"If it was nothing why did you react the way you did? I know we haven't talked about but we've been together for nearly three years and our relationship has survived two years of long distance." His hand went to her arm and the other unfurled.

"We survived long distance just dating. I just… I feel that our relationship is strong now, not despite of being married, but because we aren't. We have trust for each other and there is nothing anchoring us down but being loyal to one another. At the same time if something does happen we can walk away no strings attached."

"Lily, I will never be able to walk away from you easily."

"Of course there would be hard feelings, but there isn't a legally binding contract getting in the way."

"Getting in the way?" David looked like he was barely able to control the anger he was feeling. "Merlin, Lily I love you! Bloody hell." He pulled his hand away from her and wiped down his face once again clutching the ring tightly. It was hard to notice how easily he adopted Lily's British slang when he was unguarded. "Come here." He reached for his hand and placed the ring in her palm. "Please accept this." He takes her hands and closes them before wrapping his own around them.

"David..." She takes him in. "I…I want to, but do we need to?"

"At least take it as my promise to you."

She looked up at him.

"If you don't want to get married, we won't, but I would feel better if you at least had that." David looked at her. "Truthfully, I have a motive behind asking you. Lily, I got offered a job in America. Head coaches position to a good team, they want someone young and fresh. The owner seems to think European Quidditch has the right idea with how they train."

"That's great! You should take it."

"Yeah…" David wasn't asking her permission or even seeing how she felt about it, Lily could tell that much by the expression on his face and the tone of voice. "I want you to come with me."

It's like he punched her in the stomach. Sure, they could make due between Durmstrang and Germany just fine, but America was an ocean away. Additionally, a head coach's position meant more responsibility for him.

"You always said you didn't want to teach forever, and that you would keep on renewing your Healer's license. This is your opportunity! You could even commute to the Salem Witches Institute; it isn't far from where I'm based. There is also a number of wizarding clinics or they are always searching for Healers for the Quidditch teams."

His eyes were wide with hope and Lily looked down at the ring in her palm. It was gorgeous antique silver, darker than normal, and did not look like a typical engagement ring. A round cut emerald was in the center with two crossed lines of smaller emeralds all situated on a band that looked like intertwined vines. "It will be a promise, but I want to get you a ring to, for it to be my promise." She swallowed and got closer to him. "If we get married I just want it to be the two of us, there will be no extravagant wedding."

David didn't say anything, just wrapped his strong arms around her. Before Lily knew what hit her, she felt the tears drip down her face. This was the next big step, instead of thinking about themselves about individuals, David saw them as partners: a team that moved forward together. Lily realized how selfish she had been. For a while it was okay; she had to think of herself first, be happy with who she was before she added someone else into the equation. Now, with David, it feels right to be someone's partner.