-Chapter Seven: It Isn't Sex If... -
-By Natali-
"Damn, Lils, what world are you in?" Meggie asked, munching on her eggs. "You've been staring at your toast for the past ten minutes with this stupid smile on your face."
Lily shrugged, averting her friends' gazes. "Not hungry."
"But you're totally off," J. Mo commented, flicking a gaze towards James who was staring at Lily. "Where were you last night?"
"In my Head dormitory," Lily said, only half lying. She had been in there.
"Doing what?" Brandy asked sweetly.
"I wanted some alone time. I'm… stressed for the exams."
"A bit far away, don't you think?" Meggie accused, eyeing her.
"You know how crazy I get sometimes, Megs."
"I do, but even this isn't normal for you."
"Just drop it, alright, you guys?" Lily sighed, closing her eyes. "I'm really tired."
"Didn't get much sleep last night?" J. Mo asked, sipping orange juice. "Hmm… James looks pretty worn out too."
Lily blushed, but purposely dropped her fork to the floor in order to cover it up. "I wonder why." Because we spent last night shagging twice.
Before they could continue their conversation, Sirius signaled to J. Mo as he rose and indicated to her that they meet outside.
"I've… got to go. I'll be back in two minutes. The loo," she explained, jumping up and heading after him. When she'd reached him outside of the Hall, she asked, "What's up?"
"James didn't come to his bed last night."
J. Mo smirked. "Neither did Lily. What were they doing? I wonder… playing backgammon?" She smiled, and shook out her black hair. "I hear it's a sexy game."
"You're a tease, Harrison," Sirius smiled, leaning towards her. "What were you doing with Chris last night?"
"Chris? Chris who?" she asked innocently. "Oh, you mean Chris Quarry? Oh, he's just… a friend."
"Are you always comfortable with your friends like that?"
"We were just being chummy, Black. Why, are you jealous?" she asked the question in a low, sultry voice, ever the enchanting seductress.
Sirius snickered. "In your dreams. As for your buddy Evans over there… You know our deal."
J. Mo grimaced, and crossed her arms. "We still have another month to win our bet."
"We know our James."
"We know our Lily."
"You really think that she'll ask him to `go steady' before time runs out?" Sirius laughed, mocking her. "Lily's not that type of girl, I know. She waits for the guy to make the move. She won't ask him."
J. Mo nodded. "Of course, Black."
His eyes shifted over her body, and she blushed for the first time in a long while. She might as well have been naked.
"What about you? Are the type of girl who asks guys out?" he whispered, leaning forward more still.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Mustering all the female courage that she could, she perused him just as he had only seconds before. She noticed that he wriggled his shoulders uncomfortably.
"You must be… a bloody great romp in the sheets."
J. Mo saw her world go red, and she backed away. "Oh, Sirius Black, I could just-"
"Kill me, doll?" he interjected, smiling wolfishly.
She glared as he closed in on her. "I should, and I would…"
He chuckled and whispered the following words against her lips. "But you won't."
"Hey, Sirius, mate! Where are you hiding?" James called, stepping out of the Great Hall.
Sirius and J. Mo jumped apart from each other.
"By the following month," she said in a promise, and turned on her heel, leaving him to rejoin her friends at breakfast.
You shouldn't gamble with fate.
Sirius watched her go, plotting James's murder as the victim in question walked towards him. He couldn't have waited just two more minutes, right?
"What?" Sirius growled, leaning casually against the wall. His voice was infused with irritation, and he suppressed the serious urge to punch his best mate.
"I need to talk to you," James muttered, looking like the devil. It was obvious he'd stayed up last night thinking a few things over, and he had a lot of things he had to get out of his head. "It's… serious."
"I'm Sirius," Sirius joked, instantly in a better mood. Hey, there's always next time…
"Please, don't joke around. I have a genuine problem," James sighed, mussing up his hair violently, so that it looked like he'd just taken a broom ride. "You want to talk outside?"
Sirius nodded, pushing himself off the wall. "Sounds like a plan. What's your worry?"
"Lily."
Sirius grinned. "Who won the bet?"
"I did, but-Wait." James stopped dead in his tracks, just as he was about to open the oak doors. "How'd you know about our bet?"
Holy bloody fuck, Sirius swore. I forgot Remus had been eavesdropping.
"Remus overheard you two making the deal," he grumbled, despising the fact he'd had to give it away. "How was she?" he asked after a pause.
"She was… beyond belief," James grinned, shaking his head. "Like a goddess."
Sirius nodded. "You like her, don't you mate?"
"I do." It pained James to have to admit it. "She's not a mindless bimbo. She doesn't seem to care that I'm a Marauder. And… she was the leader of our enemy group." He looked at Sirius. "Tell me that's not hot." He sighed and kicked at a stone. "Great mind-devious mind. Our kids would wreak havoc here."
"Slow down buddy, you just bedded her last night," Sirius chuckled, only slightly alarmed. He knew that eventually one day, they'd all fall for someone-permanently. He just hadn't been expecting it so soon.
"Twice. It was great, both times."
"Was she…?" Sirius made the shape of an hour glass with his hands, and James adamantly nodded.
"I'm starting to think the hourglass was designed after her."
"So what's the problem? You're going to win our bet and a whole lot of money. I don't see the problem. In fact, I should be the one complaining right now," Sirius said, somewhat hysterically as he thought of the money he'd lose.
James stopped, and turned his back to his best friend, idly watching the Giant Squid swim around in the lake. "I like her."
"What's not to like?" Sirius teased, but sobered when he noticed his friend wasn't joining in the fun. "Is there something wrong with liking her?"
"I don't think she's interested."
"Why don't you ask? In over a month."
"What?"
"Never mind." Sirius took on the role as a good best friend and did his duty. "Ask her if she… wants to go steady."
"The Marauders don't go steady, Sirius," James winced. "It's… unlike us."
"The Marauders don't," he agreed, stepping closer to James to give him a reassuring pat on the back. "But James does."
James had to smile at that, and cocked his head at Sirius. "What about Sirius? Does Sirius do that?"
Sirius shoved him. "Shut up, Potter."
James snickered, and shoved him back. "Alright, alright, say what you will. But it sure seemed as if you and J. Mo were getting pretty cozy there before I interrupted."
"It was just an almost kiss."
"It was just a shag, and look where I'm at."
"Yeah, but you're fucked up, James. That's natural for you."
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"James?" Lily whispered, sticking her head into the boys' dormitory late that same night. "James, are you awake?"
James sat up, pulling a shirt on quickly as he rushed her outside. He didn't mind telling his best mates that they'd shagged, but that didn't mean that he was in any sort of a great rush to ruin her reputation.
His Lily was no slut.
"What are you doing here?" he began to ask, but before he could even form the first word on his lips, Lily threw herself against him and kissed him hungrily, running her hands all over his body.
"You've got one shag left," she whispered against his lips, littering feathery kisses around his face.
"No, we've got two nights, Miss Evans," he disagreed, bending to lick the pulse point at her neck. That is, before she shoved him away.
"No way," she stated firmly, crossing her arms. If it weren't for her messed up hair and slightly disheveled sweater, it would appear they'd never had anything more than fights, not wild passionate sex-twice.
"That was the agreement, Lily."
"The agreement was for three times, James. Not three different nights."
"You'd never made your wishes clear. I didn't know that it was only three times-which, by the way, it isn't."
"What's the difference?"
"I would've been better," he told her hoarsely, pulling her back against the hard length of him. "You would've come back for sure."
Lily smiled. "Well, as your last chance tonight, you can work your magic."
"Who said I was giving up? You've cheated me. I've decided you're an ungracious loser."
Lily slid her hand down along his chest and gripped him through his boxers. He inhaled sharply, groaning softly. "Don't play with fire, Lily."
She kissed him again, hot tongue diving in to meet with his own. "A deal is a deal," she cooed, nibbling his nose playfully. "Take it or leave it."
"I'll take it," he answered swiftly, his cunning mind already at work. But don't think you won't pay for it, he thought wickedly. There's a difference between playing around and sex...
"My bed or yours?" she asked, not really waiting for an answer. She stepped away from him, grabbed his hand and headed for the exit of Gryffindor Tower to find the Head dorms.
He lifted the hand that his own cradled and placed a tender kiss on it.
Lily sighed, closing the door behind them. The Head dorms were right outside the Gryffindor common room, so it hadn't taken that long to get there. "I think you're getting too attached, James."
He raised a haughty eyebrow but didn't reply, only kept massaging the spot where he'd kissed her hand. "Just me?" he asked finally.
"I don't even know you."
"You know me better than you think. You can't say you don't like hanging around with me."
Lily studied him for a good twenty seconds before asking, "Why do the Marauders do what they do, James? Glory? Profit? The hell of it?"
"Unity," he replied. "There's not much else to it, except maybe the rush of adrenaline. Know what I mean?"
"I do," she told him truthfully, glancing longingly at the bed. "Let's get this over with then."
You annoying little twit, this isn't something I want to get over with! James screamed at her mentally. You're going to rue the day that you bumped heads with the likes of me.
"Lie down," he commanded, throwing back the covers. He caught Lily pulling off her pink T-shirt and stopped her.
"What?"
"Don't take it off," he pleaded softly, tugging the ends so that it was back in place. "Trust me on this." He joined her under his red velvet comforter and pulled her close to him. "Just relax."
"All right. I will," she sighed, grateful when he pressed his lips to her own. So there they lay, the two Heads of Hogwarts, kissing almost innocently for two very experienced teenagers.
"You feel so good," he moaned, rubbing his nose against hers. "Great are the hands that created you."
She laughed, closing her eyes as James loved her attention-seeking breasts. One of his callused hands slipped under the soft material of her favorite night shirt and massaged the nipples into tight buds.
"You weren't wearing a bra," he noted.
"I don't usually wear one to sleep."
He nodded, returning to her swollen lips and kissed her with all the ardor he could muster. By now, he was aching-Lily was 100% ready, and they were alone, and she did have all the intents and purposes to shag.
Unfortunately for him, that couldn't happen just yet.
Ah, the power of seduction.
With about as much self control as it took to keep a hundred randy teenagers from the village's one virgin, he slowly decreased the intensity of the kisses until their lips only touched each other without any movement.
Lily looked sleepy, and she yawned. "Baby, why are your hands so rough?" Oh, no. Pet name use, she groaned to herself, wishing she could take back the words.
"Quidditch. The broom does that," he mumbled. Out of all his physical attributes, he'd always been self-conscious about his hands and he couldn't for the life of him explain why. They weren't horribly disfigured-really, there wasn't anything much wrong with them-he just couldn't stand to see how rough they were sometimes.
"Mmm," she hummed, taking one of his large hands into her own small, soft ones. "Does it ever hurt?"
"Not unless they get really chapped in a particularly long game. Then they blister."
"Is Quidditch so much worth it?"
James smiled. "Yes."
"Then that's good. You should go to Madam Pomfrey. I happen to know that she has some creams that could make even the bottom of a troll's foot as soft as a baby's bottom."
This brought an eruption of laughter from both of them, and they settled more comfortably into each other, delightfully warm.
"You weren't planning to fuck me at all, were you?" Lily questioned him.
"Nope."
"You're a bastard, you know that?"
"Yeah," he laughed, kissing her. And again... "Go to sleep."
"Here?"
"Why not?"
"There's no reason for me to sleep here," she explained, but not making any move to get up. "Is there?" Tell me that you want me to stay.
"No reason at all? You're sure?" he asked, hugging her to him.
"None except that I have to take care of your hands. I wouldn't want them to get any worse." She put her head on his shoulder and shut her eyes. "You better hope that I can get my Astronomy homework finished on time tomorrow."
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"James. I mean it."
James didn't look up at the frustrated red head glaring at him. "Whatever are you talking about, Lily dear?"
With an exasperated cry, she flopped down beside him at the couch. "I... want-need-for us to finish up our deal."
"Our deal never had a date that it had to be fulfilled by, sweetheart," James said, snickering terribly. Lily punched his shoulder, not all that soft either...
"You're a bloody wanker. You can go fuck yourself. Deal's off," she snapped, pushing the book he'd been reading onto the floor in her rage. "I bet you can't even get it up, you incompetent-Hey, what are you laughing for?"
James shook with laughter, trying hard to breathe, but not succeeding very well. "You look so very hot when you're angry... and sexually frustrated."
Lily frowned but didn't deign to answer him.
They were alone in the common room, the first time in the week since they'd last spent a night together. James still refused to appease her, not until he was sure she'd come back for more.
And never leave.
He tugged her to him, and, caught by surprise, she tumbled onto him. Breasts to chest, soft to hard, she instantly felt better about her whole situation.
She was more upset about the fact that he'd ignored her all week than the fact that he didn't satisfy the crazy lust rocking within her.
He hugged her tightly against him, breathing in the sweet smell of her hair. His nose was buried in its rich, red waves, and he wished he could stay there forever. He would, if she'd let him...
He'd done a lot of thinking in a week. About many things. How to fuck her, where to fuck her... The different ways he'd do so...
"Admit it," he whispered hoarsely against her ear as she nuzzled his neck. "You missed me."
"I did," she conceded, sighing happily. "Why did you refuse every time I asked you to come to the Head dorms with me."
"I told you. I'm doing things the right way." He caught up her lips, savoring the taste. It'd been too long without her...
"You're not going to sleep with me tonight either, are you?" Lily asked, only half sad. She wouldn't regret just being held in his arms.
"Oh, no. I'm going to sleep with you." For a moment, a flower of hope budded within her chest. Then he crushed it. "But if you meant sex, no. Not all the way. You were right about that."
"But why don't you want to?" She was partially insulted, but the truth about why she was upset was solely selfish: she needed to feel like only he could make her feel.
He laughed again, resting his cheek on the top of her head as they lay on the couch together, warm firelight casting eerie shadows on the wall. "I want to, Lils. If you can't tell, I'm going to start worrying."
"I can tell now. I can feel it," she giggled, burying her face into his shirt and taking a deep breath. It smelled so good...
"You do that to me all the time," he confessed in a whisper. "Bloody hell, I get hard when I catch just a glimpse of this infernal hair." He played with the tips of it, contemplating them. "No one else has your hair, Lily."
"That's why it's on my head, and not anyone else's," she smiled, hugging him tighter. Her body was becoming hotter in all the places it made contact with his; in other words, everywhere. "Do you want to go to our rooms now?"
He took up her hand and kissed it. "I do. Let's go."
They reached the Head dormitories, and barely made it through the door. For a second, James's more basic instincts told him to forget about waiting, to just shag her and get it over with. The sensible side of him-the side he wished to burn at the stake-told him to wait, that he'd get his reward at the end.
"Ever had sex against a wall?" he asked, breath tickling her ear.
"No," she admitted, biting his neck. "Want to show me what it's like?"
"Sure. Some other day." He laughed as she cursed him-and his ancestors. "But will you settle for just fondling against a wall today, Lily?"
She growled-actually growled-and replied, "Fine, but I hope you know that it's only because I'm sexually deprived."
"You could always go elsewhere," he suggested, knowing that he'd murder her if she did.
"Ah, but once you've had a taste of the Potter, you'll never settle for less," she shrugged. "Besides, Sirius is busy."
In mock-anger, he threw her against the wall and kissed her hungrily. "You'll pay for that."
"I hope so," she sighed blissfully, arching as his hand kneaded her breast. "Gosh, I hope so…"
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