RP: Dropping in (sort of) unannounced

[tt_james]

Date: 23. April 2002
Characters: James Potter & Lily Evans
Setting: Lily's house in Settlement 1
Content: TBD
Status: Open :: Private

Subtlety was not James' strong-suit, and so when he'd seen Lily's posting, he headed over to Shacklebolt's and ordered two of the dinner specials, he headed toward her house and wrote her back. Now he stood in her front yard, carrying two bags of food, and pocketing his datapad before letting himself in as she'd told him to. She really should be locking her door, especially with no magic to defend herself with, but he'd tell her that over dinner. No need to look too protective, right?

"Lil?" He called in to the house, automatically moving to the kitchen and setting the food down. He pulled down two plates and started putting out the food, hoping she liked the assortment he'd gotten. He should know what she liked, right? He shook his head and called again, "Lil, dinner is served," and searched through her ice box for sparkling water.

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[tt_james]

Kissing her softly on the lips, James sighed. "I'm sorry, sometimes, that you're the only one who has those memories. But we have lots of firsts we can have all over again, can't we?"

He thought for a moment, his face close to her, "How did I propose?" The question even caught James off guard, but he found himself wanting to know the minute the words escaped his lips.

[tt_lily]

"Well, it wasn't particularly romantic. You know, being rushed and all, and the whole 'You-Know-Who-wants-us-dead-thing'. But it was late one evening, and I was over practically all the time anyway. But we were lying in bed and you just said out of nowhere, 'we should probably get married'. I remember feeling really confused so I asked why. You said it was because we felt right together and it was the first time you said you loved me." It was another memory Lily would never forget. There were several ingrained in her memory. As she said, it wasn't the most romantic, but it was sincere.

[tt_james]

James smiled at her recollection. It seemed a very 'him' proposal - this him or any other, really.

"Was it how you'd wanted it? Don't little girls dream of how things like that will happen?" Suddenly, while he knew it was his style, in his other life, he wondered if she'd been happy. "Were happy? With our life? I mean, other than the war and the fear..." He shook his head and kissed her collar bone, suddenly feeling very serious.

[tt_lily]

Lily shrugged, "I'm sure if it was a different life, I would have been rather put off with that proposal. Besides, it was you. I didn't expect flowers and a real mushy proposal; perhaps loud, but not overly mushy. Your personality shone through with it. I loved it."

Despite not having to really think about his question, she did anyway. "I was happy, yes. I was really scared but you made me feel safe. Was I 100% happy all the time? No. But that's normal. I kicked you out for a week when I was pregnant."

[tt_james]

James laughed and sat back with a mock look of surprise and hurt on his face. "What on earth did I do to deserve being kicked out? And where did I go? I imagine our home was the one everyone came to when they needed a safe haven, but what was my safe haven?" Part of him couldn't help but imagine what Lily must have been like when she was pregnant, but another part of him didn't want to at all. To have a son, now older than himself, that he didn't know... He just had so much trouble wrapping his mind around it all, too often.

[tt_lily]

"In my little pregnant brain, I was 500% certain you were shagging our neighbor - you weren't of course, but I was erm... very sensitive. I was only 4 or 5 months along but felt three times my normal size. You went to Remus' where Sirius was called in as well. After about, 5 days, of me not talking to you, you decided to sit next to our front door until I would let you in. This was before we went to Godric's Hollow." Lily blushed telling him all this. Despite the fact it happened to him, it felt so... weird.

"And yes, our home was the safe haven for others."

[tt_james]

"Well then, remind me never to shag a neighbor," he concluded, grinning goofily. Sobering a bit he said, "It always was. Everyone was always welcome with my mum and dad, did we keep that going? At Godric's Hollow or anywhere else?"

Where this intense curiosity had come from, he had no idea, but James was suddenly so happy to be hearing these stories and from Lily of all sources.

[tt_lily]

Lily shook her head, "We really couldn't in Godric's Hollow. Once Sirius became our Secret-Keeper, it was really hard. Remus came around twice to visit. Sirius couldn't come around all that often either. We knew our neighbors, but kept our distance." That was such a hard way of living. They could go out a little, but cabin fever built up quickly.