Chapter 12

Planet Merlin's

A/N: To urges: My logic on this was…. Lily and James didn't have Harry until they were older. Since James and his friends aren't really "dad" material right out of school. But if Arthur and Molly have kids when Molly is right out of school so…. They have Bill at 18, Charlie at 19, Percy at 21, the twins at 23, Ron 24, and Ginny 25. And James and Lily don't have kids until they are 26. Thanks for making me do the math… It took me awhile.

Recap: Sirius explained. He was intrupted by a yell from James.

"LILY, HOW COULD YOU? I LOVED YOU AND YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO ME?"

Lily pushed the Ravenclaw off her. She was a tad drunk and dancing with the cute boy and he kissed her. Her senses, not at full, let him kiss her and kissed back. Then, at wonderful timing James saw her…

"James! JAMES!" Lily called as her future ex boyfriend stomped out of the club. Leah and Sirius looked shocked and Sirius ran up to Lily.

"Leave him be, he has a tad bit of a temper. I will have Remus come get you when its safe. He might kill you otherwise. He has NEVER loved a girl the way he loves you. You royally fucked this up." Sirius explained and went off to find his friend.

"Leah what did I do? Sirius is right I did fuck this up." Lily went to the bar and got another drink.

"I will take that. It is half the reason you are in this mess. Drinking and not pulling away are your two mistakes. Let me find Anna."

Leah walked off and found Anna in a alcove sitting with Remus. They both looked like they had no idea that any of this had happened. Leah explained it to them and Remus walked out of the club. Anna came to the bar where Lily had already slammed another drink. "Lily, stop drinking. Let's get out of here, and talk about this." Anna said when she approached.

"I don't want to leave for one. And secondly YOU can't make me leave." Lily said, fairly drunk by now. "If I want to drink away my sorrows I have all right to do so. I am old enough to make m..my own decisions."

"Not when you're drunk." Leah said and whispered to the bartender to make all non-alcoholic drinks for Lily.

"Coke and rum, heavy on the rum." Lily ordered. The bartender listened to Leah and poured a regular coke.

"Let's go over to an alcove to talk Lily. For if you didn't notice you made James Potter cry and storm off. A man that you loved." Anna said and brought Lily to an alcove.

"He…He… CRIED?" Lily said in-between sobs.

"Yes he did, a lot like how you are now. Do you want to talk this out?" Leah asked.

"Yes. I thought that dancing with Brady wouldn't hurt anything so I did. And after a few dances and drinks, he kissed me. I kissed back; it was a drunken kiss, nothing more. I love James. Though I won't admit it and now he hates me. It's my entire fault. I should have never danced with Brady…" Lily rambled.

"It's ok, Tiger Lily. James is mad, alright but he doesn't hate you. He loves you that's why he was hurt so badly by this." Anna said.

Lily started crying harder. Anna wondered what she did wrong. "James gave me the name tiger lily." Lily sobbed. Anna and Leah moved closer to her friend and held her as she cried.

James.

James ran out of that club full of anger and sorrow. He wanted to know what Lily was thinking, how long they had been kissing, why wouldn't she had pulled away. But he wasn't in the mood to listen to Lily's excuses. He just ran outside and sat against the building and for the first time in years, James Potter cried like a baby.

This is how Sirius found him. Sitting with his hands in his face crying. "Prongs, buddy." He said. Sirius wondered where Remus was and how he couldn't have NOT heard James.

"Padfoot. She doesn't love me. I was a fool to think she ever did. She doesn't care about me and I love her. I want to marry her, and she goes and kisses another guy without a care." James said.

"She does love you. It is apparent that she does, when she's not tipsy. There has to be a reason that they were kissing. Maybe it was just an accident!" Sirius explained.

"Oh so she fell and his lips just caught hers?" James asked.

"You know that's not what I mean. Who knows what was happening. I know that it wasn't something Lily would do in her right mind." Sirius said. Just then Remus came running towards them. "Took you long enough Moony."

"I didn't know what happened. Leah came up to me and Anna and told us. Lily is fairly drunk now. She was chugging drinks on my way out." Remus explained.

"Good, I hope she drinks her way to hell." James said, spitefully.

"You know that you don't want that. Maybe it was just a drunken kiss. Why won't you just let her come explain herself?" Remus asked.

"I don't want to hear her excuses. I do want a firewhiskey though." James said. Sirius got up and entered the club. He saw Brady Colson on the way. Brady followed him and tried to explain himself.

"It was a drunken kiss. Nothing more. I totally wouldn't so that if I wasn't drunk. I have a girlfriend too. I can see why James would be so upset. Please tell him it was nothing." Brady told Sirius.

"I will. But be careful. James is still in a rage and I don't want to see you hurt." Sirius said and grabbed the drinks. He walked to Leah who was holding a very distraught Lily. "Leah, how is she?"

"She is terrible. Thinks that James hates her and how she didn't mean anything by it and that she loves him. She keeps saying I love James over and over again."

"She said love?"

"Yep. How is James?"

"He is doing about as well as Lily here. He's crying which he hasn't done for years! He keeps saying that Lily doesn't care about him." Sirius said.

"I DO CARE I LOVE HIM!" Lily yelled.

"I know that you do, darling. I will just try to get James to see that. He loves you. He would never hate you." Sirius said and walked back outside.

"Here's your drink, Prongs. I talked to Colson. He said that he has a girlfriend and knows where you are coming from. He also said that it was a drunken kiss and he would have never kissed her if he wasn't drinking."

"LIAR! Who wouldn't want to kiss my tiger lily? She's amazing." James said.

"He wouldn't. Lily really cares about you. She's crying too. She keeps saying I love James over and over again. She's frantic. James you need to see her." Sirius said.

"Maybe I will." James said and drunkenly walked back into the club. He went to find Lily and he could here someone sobbing in the distance. He could faintly hear someone say "We know you love him" so he followed the noises. He found his girlfriend in one of the dining alcoves, crying. And at that moment he didn't care that she kissed anyone. She could've kissed Malfoy and he wouldn't have cared, being there for her did. He ran up to her and remembered he was the one who made her like this. Anna spotted him and came up to him.

"I love Lily, and I want to be there for her." He said.

"That's good to know. Do you know what all happened?" Anna asked.

"Yes, Colson told Sirius. I know that it wasn't something they would do if they weren't drinking. Now let me go to her." James said.

"I don't know James. She is still pretty upset."

"Please." James said and gave his best puppy eyes. Of course Sirius's were more convincing but for a stag they still were pretty good.

"Ok." James went over to Lily, Leah looked up and saw him. She moved away and Lily looked up.

"James. I… I… Didn't mean to I swear. Please don't leave me." Lily said, still crying.

"It pains me to see those eyes cry. I know what happened. And I wont leave you. I love you to much to even consider leaving you. But I will say know that our love wont always be the easiest thing."

"Nothing real is easy." Lily said and hugged James.

A/N: This is the last chapter for about 2 weeks. I am having surgery so I won't be at the computer. I love all of the great reviewers! It really makes my day!