The gang's all here - Night at the pub

[tt_lily]

Date: 18 April, 2002
Characters: Lily, Remus, James, Harry(?), Lisa (?), others
Setting: The World's End Pub
Content: Gen
Status: Open: Public

Lily checked her watch after James' last message and grabbed a quick shower before she headed over to the pub. As she got dressed in jeans and top, she thought about how this would be the first time all of them got together - her, James, Sirius, and Remus - since they all arrived. Not to mention throwing in Harry. What a time this would be.

Hurriedly, although she was still a few minutes early for the time she wanted to leave, she finished getting ready (deciding to leave her hair down) and left. Knowing it would take a bit longer than normal to get there, she arrived a full fifteen minutes early. Better to be fashionably early. At least that's what she told herself.

Remus arrived at the pub a few minutes before Lily had so he took the honors of finding them a large enough table (he ended up moving some together). He'd went ahead and ordered a couple pitchers of the local brew to start the night off with a bang.

Upon seeing his friend, he stood and gave her a hug. "You'll have to forgive me if I get rowdy tonight."

Lily rolled her eyes. "You're tame compared to James and Sirius. If Sirius makes it."

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[tt_james]

"Oh! Remus!" James exclaimed, remembered Lil's note from earlier, "Let's prove our non-magical worth and fix Lil's couch, hey? And we can even help you finish moving your stuff around, right? We don't need magic for that."

He nodded his head as if to say the matter was solved.

[tt_lily]

"But James... the legs are broke on one side and the middle is all saggy..." Lily said. Her couch was in a sad state of affairs. "I won't say no to further help though. My bookcase is the in the middle of the room and Leo isn't too pleased with everything. I think he knows the magic is out too."

Remus' head moved between the pair. "Right. Moving furniture. Tomorrow... if we're sober then?"

[tt_james]

"Right but that's what tools are for, aren't they? We can talk to Sirius, borrow a hammer and some nails," he shrugged - clearly he had it under control, even if he was pretty sure he'd never seen a hammer, in person, in his entire life.

"I don't plan to be sober then," he shook his head with a smile and then took another long drink of his beer. "I think we're going to need at least another couple of pitches, what do you say? My treat this round."

[tt_lily]

Lily watched as Remus excused himself, a bit confused until she saw where he was headed. She got a grin on her face and nodded to James. "Sure. I'll get the following round then... I think there is more involved than hammer and nails, James. But we can try." At least he was trying to cope without magic.

[tt_james]

James also watched where Remus headed with a sly smile and took the moment to kiss Lily on the cheek, wrapping his arm a bit tighter around her.

"Well, maybe you'll like the look of me working with my hands," he muttered to her, keeping his voice down for the innuendo joke.

[tt_lily]

"I don't know... remember... I have memories of us being married..." she teased him. "Of course... I do remember this one particular time after you had been a major git..." she trailed off, then casually grabbed her glass to take a drink. It was an appropriate pause of course.

[tt_james]

James' eyes went wide. "Well, if that's the sort of story we used to have, soemday you might just be Mrs. Potter again," he said, joking, before he realized quite what words were coming out of his mouth.

Shaking his head and looking to her, he pursed his lips and breathed out, "I mean, well, Um. You know what I mean." He looked away uncomfortably and reached to take a drink.

[tt_lily]

Lily nodded. "Baby steps, James. It's okay." She was going to rush things for them, not when he was more skittish than an overly paranoid cat. Lily would be okay waiting years if she knew it was something he wanted 100%. Until then, she was happy to be his girlfriend and snog him when she could.