Wow, I actually am sorry about this! Please don't be too angry. I just started University this year and well, it has taken some getting used to…

This chapter is shorter because I wasn't sure how people would respond to it. I'm afraid that I lost the sense of the characters over the months, so please tell me if I did so I can work harder on the next chapter! Thank you sooo much for all the review and support. Everyone I got a new review I opened this story up and wrote a few lines!

-Jill

Disclaimer: Not Mine.

Rating: M

Jane slumped on her bed. Two guys in one week was not her usual pace, hell she didn't even have a pace. She knew that nothing would come of Davis, he was an international Qudditich star, not to mention married to Lily, her immediate superior. And with James… he did promise, and he has this thing about going back on promises. She trusted him with her life but her heart was another story. James had given his to Lily long ago and she wasn't absolutely sure that he had gotten it back yet.

She heard James and Sirius apparate out of his room and now that they had left and it was safe to leave the confines of her room. There was a knock on the door and she suddenly remembered that Marlene McKinnon was coming over. Jane opened the door running a hand over her face.

"Bloody hell, you look like you've come through a sausage grinder!"

"I'm not through it yet by any stretch of the imagination," Jane sighed slumping on the couch.

"Rough day?" Marlene smiled sitting next to her.

"I guess."

"I'm going to have to pry this information out of you, won't I?"

"No, no… You see there are these guys…"

Marlene's eyes grew wide. "Guys, blokes plural?"

"Two, to be exact. And ones married and the other is just as good as."

"Ditch them. Married guys always go back to their wives and you always look like the trap even if they seduced you. As for the other one, which I know is James and don't fight with me on it, it's been eight years since he's seen her and he's still long gone, don't waste your time with him."

"I forgot to mention that she's at St Mungo's."

"Who?" Marlene frowned.

"Lily Evans."

"Lily? In London's St Mungo's? The one around the corner?"

"The very one, and she's my supervising Healer."

"Rough day?" Marlene frowned. "More like a rough life."

"Thanks for the support, tea?" Jane got up heading for the kitchen.

"Please and thank you! And then you'll tell me about the married bloke!"

Jane yelled from the kitchen, "he's Lily's husband. No more needs to be said on the matter."

Marlene frowned. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you are partial to left-overs."

"Please don't remind me. I'll have a hard enough time dealing with all of this as it is, I don't need that floating around in my head." Jane came out of the tea. "Say, weren't you friends with Lily in Hogwarts? Why the lack of excitement?"

Marlene sipped her tea. "We had a falling out."

"Elaborate," Jane urged.

"I went to Rome with her in the beginning. She was going to do the school while I did the adventures. We'd compare notes at the end of the day."

"Naturally, continue."

"I didn't want her to take the job with the Vulcans. She always wanted to be a Healer taking care of patients that needed her to save their lives, not careers. I said she sold out and we fell out." Marlene shrugged and continued sipping on her tea.

"You're not curious about who she married?"

"Believe it or not, I am not as much as a gossip as you are!" Marlene smiled. "But you'll tell me anyways, like you always do."

"Davis Faxon."

"Oh bloody hell. Are you serious?"

"Hey, open the bleeding door, we can hear you!" Sirius called kicking the front door.

Jane sighed giving a look to Marlene and went to open in.

"It's about fucking time!" Sirius grunted as he walked past her with James slung over his shoulders.

"What the hell, Black? What did you do to him?" Marlene got up.

"McKinnon! How wonderful to see you again!" Sirius smiled, throwing James down on the couch as he continued mumble.

"Later, Sirius, what happened to James?" Jane took out her wand.

"He had a little bit of a rumble with Faxon, and then had the shit kicked out of him by some Fire Whiskey," Sirius shrugged. "One out of two isn't bad."

"He fought Davis?" Jane glared, finishing up her healing.

"Yes, he got lucky because when Lily came out…" Sirius stopped.

"Care to continue, Black?" Jane shot daggers.

Sirius shook his head and pointed to the kitchen before going in to get himself some tea.

"Bloody hell, if they fought over Lily…" Jane mumbled as she woke James up.

"Hum? Lily?" James opened his eyes.

"No, it's Jane. Sorry." She glared.

"Oh thank Merlin!" James hugged her around her waist and she melted smoothing out his hair.

The next morning James came late into work. He wished he wouldn't have shown up at all when he saw Lily standing at his cubical.

"Can we talk?" She sighed.

James ran a hand through his hair, "not here," he said looking around at the eyes looking over the short walls. "We'll go to the board room." He leant his head towards the nearest door.

Once he closed the door behind her, James remained silent.

"Look, I just wanted to come and apologize for last night. Davis shouldn't have fought you." Lily looking into her hands.

"It's alright," James mumbled in return.

Lily glared. "You prick! You'll let him take the blame for something you started?"

"Why the hell did you want to apologize then if I started it?" James fumed.

"Because I figured you would be enough of a man to say that it was your fault!" Lily put her hands on her hips.

"Well you figured wrong. I'm not the married one, am I?"

Lily shook her head. "Merlin James, you're thick! Who told you I was married?"

James frowned. "Jane told me the other day."

Lily nodded. "Right, you live with her… we'll it's just like you to find out information second hand."

"Look, at the train station…"

"James, that was so long ago. Just leave it in the past." She shut her eyes.

James walked over and leaned against the table beside her. "I can't. Please Lily, let me explain. You were leaving without telling me and I couldn't wake up one day and have you gone."

"You don't get it, James! I wasn't going to go. That's why I didn't tell you. I wanted to stay in England and do my training here and be with you. But as always you acted on impulse and here we are."

"As awkward as ever," James agreed.

They stood in silence.