Lily Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Epilogue – Summer's End

Lily Luna Potter and her three best friends, Lizzie, Stephanie and Melissa, skipped down the drive of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry heading in the direction of Hogsmeade. The sky was still light but the sun was starting to drop lower in the sky casting a sot orange glow over the rooftops of the village, a few owls could be seen silhouetted against it flying back to the post office in Hogsmeade and Lily began to feel excited at the prospect of a weekend away from the school and away from her parents. It was the end of the first week back at school, a week which had almost seemed an eternity to Lily who had not seen Raulph since the previous Sunday morning when he had escorted her with her parents to platform nine and thre quarters where she boarded the train taking her back to her own school for her final year. He has waved her off standing beside Harry and Ginny Potter after giving her a long, passionate kiss and promising to be in the three broomsticks at seven o clock on the following Friday where she and her friends could meet him for a bottle of butterbeer.

As it was only a week and though she knew she would miss him terribly she had still been excited the previous Sunday morning about seeing her friends on the scarlet train. The newly appointed head girl, Lizzie, who she had not seen since her parents had whisked her away from Durmstrang the night she had been abducted by David, Melissa who she had not seen since the day after the Yule ball eight months ago and Stephanie whom she had not seen for almost a year since the day she had boarded the same train to go to Durmstrang for the triwizard tournament. It felt like more than a year since that had happened and she could barely believe how much her life had changed in that one short year, she had lived in another country, had fallen in love with a wonderful man, had lost her virginity and almost lost her love and virtue because of a stupid mistake.

True to his word Harry had insisted that Raulph curse Lily to make her less susseptable to the imperious curse and out of both respect for her father and love for Lily he had practised with her daily in the study at Grimmauld place under Harry's supervision for the first week and then alone. He had not for one second tried to do anything other than make her throw the curse for the first week and Harry had laughed a little when his daughter had danced like a chicken, sung out of tune and poured a bucket of water over her head but then he had become serious and pointed out that these were not the kind of situations that Lily was used to being under the curse for. He had then expressed his wish for Raulph to make her do some of the things that they had used the curse for before and he then left them to practise alone for a while. Initially Lily had responded to Raulph's imperious commands desperate to do these things with him again as they were sleeping separately and unable to be intimate at all but Raulph had removed the curse and insisted that they were only doing it to help her throw the spell.

Eventually and with much embarrassment he had had to approach her father to say that he thought she was not trying hard enough under the circumstances and he had then taken her into the office alone to talk with her. Lily had not spoken to Raulph for a few hours after she had left the room rather red-faced and embarrassed but Harry and Raulph had shared an afternoon talking about auror training while she calmed down in her bedroom and the younger boy had realised that Harry's trust in him after that confession had indeed grown stronger. Harry had found it remarkable and a sign of how much he wanted to make amends that he had broached Harry about Lily's behaviour and not given in to his persuasive daughter. Out of sheer boredom Lily had appeared shortly before dinner and promised to take the imperious lesson more seriously and after that she had mastered the art again within a few days managing to throw it impeccably when Raulph was trying to make her succumb to his attempt at pleasuring her in a way that he knew she enjoyed.

On the very same day they managed the rare opportunity of having the whole house to themselves and as a reward for throwing the curse during something he knew that she liked Raulph gave in and they spent an afternoon in her bedroom making love and continuing from where she had thrown him during the curse earlier. It had been their only opportunity during the last three weeks of the summer holiday in which they had been so alone and able to make love as Raulph had been sleeping in her brother James' room while he was staying at Grimmauld place. One night, about a week into his visit, after laying for seven days in a bed beneath Raulph but separated by the ceiling, Lily laid awake and waited until she knew her parents and brothers were asleep before creeping out of her own room and up the stairs. She stopped outside Raulph's door and opened it slowly and carefully, he did not hear her as he was sleeping but when he felt her weight on the bed his eyes had opened and he had turned to face her.

"Lily?" he had whispered, "What are you doing?"

"I want to be with you Raulph, I can't stand being in the room below you knowing that you are up here in bed, naked!" she had added lifting up the covers and staring down at his strong and bare body.

"No," he had said forcefully yanking the blanket back over his body and truning to look at the pouting face she then began to pull. "I'm sorry Lily, I want it too but I will not go against your father's wishes, remember when you are back at school I will still be living here and I don't want to get your Dad's back up. Now, I love you," he had kissed her, "and I want you too," he had kissed her again, "but you have to go before anyone sees you. We can be together in Hogsmeade, but until then you will have to be patient Sweetheart," he had chuckled at her then and she had left the room huffily. The next morning she had been stiff with him and even Harry had commented over breakfast that they had been fine before bed the previous evening and wondered why she seemed mad that day.

So now, after only being able to make love once in the whole time that Raulph was in the same house Lily was very much looking forward to a weekend in the three broomsticks as she was not planning to return to school until Sunday evening. Harry and Ginny knew she would be staying with Raulph for the weekend but she was almost eighteen now and as long as it was not under their roof Harry had made his peace with his baby girl sharing a bed with a man.

"Lizzie, cheer up!" Melissa called as they walked swiftly along the road to the village, "we have a whole weekend in Hogsmeade and away from school!" she added punching the air in celebration. Terry had finished school the year before and now worked for his uncle in the post office in Hogsmeade having decided to take a year out before going into training at the Ministry to become a muggle relations officer. The post office had a small flat above it which had been vacant for many years and his uncle had allowed him to live in it while he was working there. Melissa was very much looking forward to spending her weekends away from school and cooped up in the cosy flat with her boyfriend during her last year at school and was almost running down the road in eagerness to start them. "Stop looking so miserable," Melissa continued play punching her mournful looking friend on the arm.

"Well I-"

"Miss Peter," the other three chorused together smiling at their friend who realised that she had talked about nothing else for the last week. As soon as Lizzie had joined them in the carriage on the Hogwarts Express, after doing a cursory sweep of the compartments as head girl, she had begun to regale them with tales of her summer days spent in Peter's palatial home. He was muggle born like she was but had been orphaned five years ago when his parents had been killed in a car accident and he had then become the sole heir to a vast estate in Bavaria which he had spent the last couple of years trying to remove completely from the muggle world with the help of his own ministry. He had finally managed it that summer making the house and grounds unplottable and erasing the estate from muggle history completely, he was the last member of the family and as the only wizard within it he wanted to live in his natural world rather than the muggle one he was born into and this had seemed the most sensible way to do it. He had invited Lizzie to stay at the mansion with him for most of the summer and she had happily accepted.

Lizzie's parents were muggle lawyers and spent much of their time working, therefore they were not as strict with Lizzie about where she stayed as they trusted her to be a responsible adult and so after passing her apparition test on her seventeenth birthday at the end of July she had spent most of the summer weeks with Peter and was now used to being around him all the time. Coming back to school had felt like hell to her especially as she did not know when they would get to see each other again, Peter was about to become very busy on a training course to become a dragon tamer and would be travelling around the world to observe them in their natural habitats. He loved the magnificent creatures and eventually hoped to work with them out in the wilderness of the northern Europe mountains where many of them lived.

"We know you miss him Liz," Stephanie said taking her friend's arm and pulling her close, "but at least we get to spend a weekend out of school, even if we are sharing a room with each other and not with a bloke!" she laughed. The two of them had also rented a twin room for the weekend at the three broomsticks so they could at least have some fun out of the castle even if it did mean playing gooseberry to their other two best friends.

"I suppose," Lizzie muttered in response trying to put a smile on her face to placate her friends, she had never imagined that being away from Peter would be so hard and was already planning to go into a career with dragons so she could be near him when school was over. She was quite intrigued by the creatures herself and though she knew most people would say she was only doing it to be with Peter Lizzie knew that the career could be both fascinating and exciting and she was very much looking forward to persuing it.

As the four friends approached the edge of the village Lily and Melissa began to get more excited and at the sight of the glowing lights in the window of the three broomsticks their pace became much quicker so that they were at the door within seconds of first seeing it. Lily bade good night to her friend, who then set off in the direction of the post office to meet Terry, before she wrenched open the door and glanced around looking for and immediately spotting the floppy sandy coloured hair which she loved so much, she smiled brightly at Raulph who beamed back at her and then she stopped in her tracks as she noticed that he was not alone. Lily grinned sheepishly when she saw that he had brought a friend with him and practically bounced up and down as she turned around to watch her sullen looking friend approach the pub with less spring to her step.

"What are you smiling at?" Lizzie asked when she got to the doorway and saw the sly smirk on her companion's face.

"Nothing," she replied laughing and holding the door open for her friends to pass through, she watched Lizzie as she entered the room and looked around for Raulph wondering curiously why Lily was still stood at the door and had not gone flying into his arms upon entry and then she did a double take when she saw who was sat next to him nursing a bottle of butterbeer.

"Peter," Lizzie squealed running swiftly across the bar room and launching herself at the smiling boy sitting on Raulph's left, "what are you doing here?" she went on throwing her arms around him and burying her face in his neck.

"Surprise!" he said to her through her hair which had completely covered his face when her arms had swung around his neck, Lily watched on still standing in the pub doorway and chuckled as she watched Raulph stand up slowly and make his way over to her. Meanwhile Stephanie rolled her eyes and dropped her small overnight bag on the floor muttering under her breath about being the only gooseberry again.

"Hello," Raulph whispered as he gently tugged her forward and enveloped her in his arms.

"Hey," she replied softly enjoying the feel of his arms around her back, it had been less than a week since she had seen him but she had still missed him terribly and knew then and there that spending a whole year like this would be a nightmare after being at school together for the previous year.

"How was school?" he asked guiding her over to the table where Lizzie was now practically eating Peter's face and they sat down together to talk over the week they had both had while Stephanie watched them enviously from another seat at the table not now relishing a weekend of being the only single girl among her friends.

"Great," Steph moaned as she ordered a bottle of butterbeer from Madame Rosmerta who had sidled over to their table quickly anticipating another sale, "I get to watch you lot being in lovey couples all weekend, fantastic!" she groaned with a slight smile on her face knowing that it would still be fun to be out of the castle even if she was now sharing a room with no one.

"Raulph, Peter, this is Stephanie," Lily said pulling her friend by the arm and chuckling at her, she did feel a little bit guilty about the situation having been just as surprised to see Peter as Lizzie had been and she knew it was a bit unfair on her other friend.

"Stephanie, pleased to meet you finally," Raulph said extending a hand for her to shake. "I am sorry that I brought Peter along but I was just so sick of reading his depressingly long winded letters about how much he missed Lizzie so I made him come along this weekend to surprise her, however I am afraid that I didn't stop there," he continued looking sheepishly at his girlfriend's best friend, "I also brought...ah," his hand shot up in the air and he beckoned to someone who had just entered the room behind them, Lily and Steph both spun their heads around and Stephanie's jaw nearly hit the table when she set eyes on the greek god now making his way towards their table.

Swaggering confidently, but without any arrogance, in the direction of their table was a tall, tanned, curly black haired young man with a square jawline and deep black eyes, his features were chiselled but he was very handsome and Stephanie felt her face growing hot as she realised she was trying to imagine what was underneath the casual black and blue polo shirt that he wore with a pair of muggle jeans. Lily had to admit to herself that he was utterly sexy in a completely different way to Raulph and for a second she felt herself drooling over the newcomer as he smiled at them all and took a seat beside Stephanie. "Leonidas, this is my beautiful girl Lily," Raulph said making her blush a little, "and her friends, Stephanie," he gestured towards her and she held her hand out to him coyly, he took the proffered hand in his own, raised it to his lips and kissed it softly looking up at her simultaneously through his deep dark eyes. Stephanie felt as if she had melted and she had to put her other hand on the table just to steady herself as Raulph turned to look at the other two people seated at the table and went on, "And the one surgically attached to Peter is Lizzie!" he joked and the latter pulled her head away from her boyfriend's just long enough to give Raulph a rude gesture with her finger and Leonidas a curt nod with her head before continuing where she had left off with Peter.

"Stephanie, what a beautiful name," Leonidas said in a deep voice with a thick foreign accent as he turned his attention back to the girl who was suddenly finding it very difficult to form words. "I am friend of Raulph from the ministry, we start on auror training last week," he went on glancing over at his new friend.

"I met Leonidas on the first morning during orientation, we were having a tour of the auror department and we got talking about your Dad," Raulph explained looking athis girlfriend. "Abery still talks about him as the best auror the department ever had and Leo here said how he wished he could meet this wonderful auror who had inspired him to go into the career."

"Really?" Lily asked and Leonidas nodded his head.

"I told him that I knew him and we got talking about what he was like and so on, hit it off straight away! I asked him last night what he was doing for the weekend and he said staying in the Leaky Cauldron, so I thought I'd suggest he join us as I knew bythen that Stephanie here would be playing the single girl, thought they may be able to keep each other company!" he chuckled waggling his eyebrow at the blushing girl.

"He ask me to visit for the weekend his girlfriend and friends," Leonidas jumped. "He say I could meet more English people if I come here and I see now what he meant!" Steph began to flush furiously again but within a few more minutes she and Leonidas were deep in comfortable conversation and Stephanie was flashing grateful thank you glances at both Lily and Raulph.

"Do you think we can sneak off?" Raulph whispered softly in Lily's ear a few moments later and she looked at him curiously, "I want you Lily," he went on, "now!" and he raised his eyebrows at her gesturingly. Lily glanced around the table at her friends, Lizzie was still gazing into Peter's eyes utterly amazed that he had turned up to surprise her and Steph was staring intently at the clean shaven face of her new acquaintance as he told her stories of his first week at the British ministry training to be an auror. Without saying a word Lily took hold of Raulph's hand and tugged him gently out of his seat, running swiftly they headed for the door which led to the rooms above the pub and within minutes they were stood outside the door of the room that Raulph had rented for the weekend. Lily suddenly felt rather naughty and excited about being off the school grounds in a little bed and breakfast with her love, especially as she was still wearing her school uniform, and she began to kiss Raulph passionately and hungrily as he scrabbled to open the door with the heavy key. When the door opened they fell through it into the dark room and Raulph immediately lifted her up in his arms and carried her to the bed where he lay her down and stood back to gaze longingly at her. "God you are so beautiful," he whispered before laying down on the bed beside her and initiating yet another long, sensual kiss.

"Close your eyes," she whispered cheekily to him after a couple of minutes and he looked at her in surprise before obeying her command and laying his head back on the bed. He felt her get up and could hear her moving about, once or twice he tried to open his eyes to see what she was doing but she was watching him both times so he decided to just do what she had asked and wait patiently. After another few moments she coughed and said in a timid voice, "You can open them now," he did it slowly and looked down the bed and over at her gasping loudly as he watched a coy smile spread across her face.

"Lily...wow...you...you...wow," he stuttered as he watched her approach the bed, he was frozen to the spot with shock and immediate desire, "how did...? Where did...?" he went on utterly flabbergasted.

"Rose," she replied taking another step closer to him, she was within his reach now and he held out a hand to touch her but she pulled away teasingly and smiled. "You like it then?"

"Like it?" he replied, "like it? You look amazing! Come here!" he went on jumping up swiftly with a huge grin on his face and grabbing hold of her before she could get away again, he dragged her down on top of him as she squealed and then they began to kiss hungrily once again. After a few minutes Raulph rolled her over, sat up and looked down at the amazing girl who was laid back on the bed wearing black fishnet stockings with lace tops, pointed patent stiletto shoes and a matching black lace set of bra and knickers. There was only one layer of laceto the set which left little to the imagination and the bra was made to accentuate her pert brests which were pushed together to create a subtle cleavage line. Barely taking her eyes from her he undressed quickly and climbed back onto the bed kneeling between her legs and gazing down at the flushed and excited girl who he was craving intensely. She smiled at him seductively and stroked his chest with her long fingernails before wrapping her hands around his neck and pulling him down on top of her kissing him when their lips met and allowing his kiss to trail down her neck and shoulders to the thin lace which held in her breasts.

They were so desperate to be with each other that it did not last long, after arousing her a little more with gentle biting and nipping through the lace bra Raulph removed the soft black knickers and pushed himself into her swiftly longing to lose himself completely inside her. She groaned deeply and threw back her head as he speeded up within moments and then exploded inside her with a long deep moan which she echoed herself before he fell, shaking and satisfied on top of her, kissing her neck and face furiously and whispering, "I love you," over and over again. It had only been a matter of a few weeks since they had been as one but it seemed like so much longer and as they knew that they had the rest of the weekend to take their time and enjoy it more they were both happy to have been satisfied quickly and deeply this time.

Rolling onto his side and turning her with him Raulph looked deep into her chocolate eyes and whispered in a barely audible voice, "I know we are still young Lily and we have a lot still to do with our lives but I promise you now, I am going to marry you one day."

The smile which lit up her eyes showed him that she felt exactly the same way but also that she understood they were too young to make it official now. However they both also knew that they would never want to be with any other person again, that they had found that special, unbreakable love and that they would keep that special love with them for the rest of their lives.

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