Author's Note – Sorry it's taken so long to update my pretties, but things have not been too great with my life, and I've been REALLY REALLY REALLY busy. But the season's over now, so hopefully I will be updating much more frequently…anyways, thanx SO much to my reviewers – grannyHPfan, and booboobubbles – the ONLY ones to review my last chapter. You lot had better start reviewing, or this story might disappear off the edge of the map. Anyways, on with the story.
The Masqueade…After Lily Leaves
"Hey Remus, have you seen Elisabet?" asked James.
"Who?" Responded Remus.
"Elisabet, you know, your distant relation?"
"Huh? Oh, oh yes, Lizzy. Sorry, I haven't heard anyone call her by her real name in ages, and I've called her Lizzy since we were two."
"Right, well, I was wondering if you'd seen her. She went off to the loo half and hour ago, and she's not back."
"Well, you know the ladies, they always take forever in the loo."
"I suppose you have a point there, but half an hour does seem a bit excessive, I'm going to see if Sirius has see her."
"Oh, I guarantee he's seen her alright, ever bloke here has seen her…hard not to…but if anyone knows where she is…well, that might be a bit of a problem."
"Moony, do you know something you're not telling me?"
"James, m'boy, there are so many things I know that I'm not telling you, I wouldn't know where to begin."
"I mean do you know something about Elisabet that you're not telling me?"
"Yes."
"You do?"
"I know many things about her. I have known her since I was two haven't I?"
"Moony you evil bastard, do you know anything about Elisabet that is relavent to where she is right now?"
"Maybe, I'm not sure."
"Well, what is it?"
"Only the fact that her aunt and uncle left fifteen minutes ago, since she was staying with them, I would presume her to have left with them."
"WHAT?"
"Uhh…James, could you keep it down? You're scaring the girls."
"Oh, thank you, Moony, wouldn't want to go doing that now would we?"
"I don't know…that's for you to say."
"Will you shut up?"
"It depends."
"On what?"
"On what you're willing to give me if I do."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Marry my wonderful distant cousin."
"In a heartbeat my dear man – "
"Really?"
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH MY BLOODY SENTENCE?"
"Fine. You didn't need to get all snippy about it."
"I wasn't being snippy."
"Yes, you were."
"Was not."
"Was."
"Not."
"Was."
"Not."
"Was."
"Not."
"Was."
"Not."
"Was."
"Fine, maybe I was, but that's beside the point. To finish my sentence, yes, I would marry you're wonderful Elisabet in a second, if I was not currently betrothed to the love-of-my-life."
"James, please let me fill you in on the point that she does not love you back."
"So it would seem, but she's still the love-of-my-life."
"James, if you were ever to figure out some way to get her to say the words, 'I do' when it counted, then you would end up ruining her life. You wouldn't let her go out to the pubs at night and party 'till dawn, you wouldn't let her hang out with Sirius – without your supervision – and you wouldn't let her go riding alone, or do any of the other things she loves to do. Because of all that, she would be miserable, and see you as the cause for the misery. She already hates you, and now you are willingly going to add countless more reasons for her to hate you. That would be really smart James, really smart. So just leave her alone alright?"
"No, she's mine. That's how it is, and how it will always be. There isn't a single bloke in the land that can lay a hand on her, because legally, she's mine, and they would be touching my property. And when my property is Lily Evans, I do not like other people touching it."
"You know what James? You're a selfish bastard." Then Remus punched James quite hard in the stomach, and walked away to find Sirius.
"Do you realize how sick James' mind is right now?" Remus asked Sirius.
"Uhh…how do you mean?" replied a very confused looking Sirius Black.
"I mean the fact that he is willing to tie Lily into a marriage that he knows would kill her emotionally, as well as physically…you know, if she wound up married to him, I bet she'd kill herself in the end. Mind, it would be dramatic, and would live on forever in legend, but still, any legend in the world wouldn't be worth the life of the one and only Lily Evans."
"True, and I agree, though I think she'd runaway myself. You know, this world really doesn't deserve her. She needs a life of adventure, otherwise she will kill herself."
"That she would. We have to keep James away from her."
"That's a given, I don't even know why you bothered to say it."
"Sirius, you have to get her out of the country. Tonight."
"But why?"
"I think James suspects something."
"What on earth makes you think that?"
"The way he was talking to her earlier. Please, promise me that as soon as the party ends, you'll get her out of here? Your house would be the first place James would look…especially since he saw you two dancing tonight. Please, please promise me you'll keep my Lils safe."
"Sure mate, but might I enquire as to when she became 'your Lils'?"
"You're despicable Sirius. Oh look, here comes the delinquent."
"Joy."
"James m'boy! How've you been doing this fine evening?"
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