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Much Ado About Nothing	By : goblet Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 2534 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 39

Once Remus had left the Common Room to meet with Albus, James decided to go and find Lily.

He left Sirius to sleep the afternoon away on the sofa and made his way down to the dungeons where Lily was busily working in the potions lab. She had left the door open, presumably for some ventilation, and was bent over one of the benches scribbling furiously on a piece of parchment.

James knocked once on the door. "Busy?" he asked, even though it was obvious that she was.

Lily smiled at him. "Not busy enough that I can't take a break," she replied, smiling at her friend.

"Let's go and grab some ice-cream from the kitchens then," James suggested, returning Lily's smile.

The former head girl put away her quill and parchment and, after quickly checking the cauldron bubbling away in the middle of the room, retrieved her cloak from the wardrobe. She ushered James outside and locked and warded the room.

As they walked towards the kitchens, James stole a glance at the girl who had stolen his heart. He was amazed that she had set aside her potions to join him for an ice-cream. He opened his mouth and� realised he had nothing to say.
"Lily, will you always come when I ask you to?" he asked as they entered the kitchens and took a seat at one of the long benches. As soon as he spoke the words he regretted them, his face turning a lovely shade of pink.

Lily straddled the bench opposite James and smiled at his embarrassment. "Yes of course I will. And I will depart when you ask," she replied.

James grinned at the girl. He was a nervous as hell. "Oh, but stay until then."

"'Then' is spoken. I shall go now." Lily smiled, but made no move to actually leave. "But before I go, let me go with what I came for: ice-cream!"

Lily's eyes lit up as one of the house-elves heard her request and quickly served up two large bowls of chocolate ice-cream complete with crushed peanuts and whipped cream. Smiling wickedly, she indulged in the treat, and seductively raised the spoon to her mouth, devouring the rich snack.

James swallowed hard and tried to ignore Lily's blatant flirting. He struggled to concentrate on his own ice-cream, and not to fixate his attention on her lips. He failed miserably.

Hours seemed to go by while she ate her dessert, James staring as she ate each small spoonful. Finally, Lily finished her ice-cream and thanked the house-elves for her treat.

She turned to James and smiled. "Tell me, what has passed between you and Remus?" she asked.

"Only foul words," he replied. He was still fascinated by Lily's lips even though she wasn't eating anymore. They had turned a rosy pink from the cold ice cream. "May I kiss you?" he asked softly.
Lily narrowed her eyes at her former adversary. "Foul words are but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noxious; therefore I will depart unkissed."

James chuckled at Lily's witty response: it was so typical of her. He wondered at how something that had annoyed him two weeks ago seemed so� charming now. "I challenged Remus to a Wizard's Duel, and told him that if he refused, I would declare him a coward and disgrace him.

"But now that we know that it was a scheme cooked up by the creative team of LeStrange, LeStrange and Black, I retracted my challenge. He is really upset by the entire incident; he does not need to fight me, he has his conscience to do that for him."

James smiled warmly at Lily. "So tell me, for which of my bad parts did you first fall in love with me?"

Lily giggled, and for once in her life didn't mind that she was acting like a silly schoolgirl. She pretended to think for a moment before replying. "For them all together; as they maintain such a prudent state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them," she told him. "But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?"

James snorted. "Suffer love! Your description is accurate, I do suffer love. I love you against my will," he stated, referring back to their conversation on Mid-Summer's Eve, and deftly not answering the question.
"In spite of your heart?" Lily asked. "Poor heart! If you are going to spite it for my sake, then I will spite it for yours, as I can never love something that my friend hates."

James laughed. "You and I are too wise to woo peacefully," he said quietly, stretching over the table to give Lily a small kiss.

The kiss grew more passionate as the two Gryffindors prolonged the contact; they continued kissing until the need for oxygen grew too great. James pulled away first, and stood just staring into Lily's deep, green eyes. They had both risen from their seats during the kiss and were now standing, half-crouched, looking into each other's eyes.

James was the one to break the moment. "I take it my foul breath wasn't too noxious?" he asked with smirk on his face.

Lily grinned, and sat down again. "I brew potions for a living. I know how to hold my breath when breathing noxious air," she replied with a smirk of her own.

James chuckled.

After a moment they both grew serious again. "Any news from Snape?" he asked. He was actually genuinely concerned about the git.

Lily nodded. "He arrived back this afternoon."

"Oh he did? How is he?"
Lily sighed. "Very ill."

"He's still upset about Remus?" James asked softy. He knew Snape could hold a grudge, and probably would for a long time, however he was not asking after feelings of revenge, but rather his general well-being.

"That and more," Lily replied.

"He knows that Remus would have him back in a heartbeat, doesn't he?" asked James, quietly.

Lily nodded.

"Doesn't he want Remus?" James enquired.

"That's not the problem," whispered Lily.

"If he wants to be with Remus, and he knows Remus wants to be with him, what is the problem?"
"He doesn't think that Remus will want him back now that he carries the Dark Mark on his arm," Lily confessed.

James' heart stopped. Of all the things that Lily could have said, that was the last statement he had expected. "The Dark Mark?" he asked.

Lily nodded once more. "The Dark Lord Marked him. Severus was given no choice in the matter: if he refused to be Marked, Voldemort would have assumed he was either contesting him for leadership, or a spy. Now he's scared that Remus won't want him because he bears the Mark."

"I think we should give Remus a little more credit than that," James said. "I'm sure he would understand."

"We are talking about a person who left his fianc� at the altar because he didn't have the guts to quietly take him aside and calmly and rationally discuss with him what he had seen the night before. He didn't even have the backbone to send Sirius, or speak with Minerva!

"Severus has a point, if Remus couldn't handle himself properly before, imagine how he's going to react when he sees the Mark."

"I still think we should at least give him a chance," James answered.

Lily shrugged. "Albus was going to talk to him on Severus' behalf."

"That's good to hear, I was wondering what Albus wanted with him," James replied.
Lily sniffed. "Severus is beside himself with worry," she admitted. "And the Mark hurts him. It's all disgusting and weepy, and none of the potions are helping it."

James caressed Lily's face. "He'll be fine. How are you?" he asked.

"Very ill too."

"Albus will sort this out. Everything will work out as it is meant to," James assured her.

He stood from his side of the table and rounded it, sitting down next to Lily. James pulled her into a warm hug. "Everything will be fine," he repeated.

They were interrupted by a small house-elf wearing a Hogwarts pillow case. It had climbed onto the table in front of them and had startled them by banging two saucepan lids together beside their heads.

"Headmaster Dumbledore says to tell you to ready yourself for a wedding tomorrow," the elf told the couple. "You are needed in his office right away."

Having delivered its message, the house-elf hopped off the table and disappeared into the depths of the kitchen.
Lily pasted a brave smile on her face. "Coming?" she asked, holding her hand out to James.

"Of course."

tbc...

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