b l a c k b i r d, james

[lily luna potter]

it was studying time for lily luna potter. she had neglected studying for the past week or so and was now behind in her studies. so in order for her to get caught up with homework and essays she would bury herself in her books and read until she couldn't read anymore. she would spend the entire saturday afternoon in the library like her aunt hermione would do whenever she would read. although her aunt hermione was never behind in her studies and neither was her mother.

lily finished her defense against the darks arts essay about werewolves and animagi when she decided to take a short rest. she would go to her dormitory and take a short nap. lily put away her books and put her papers in her bag and headed over to the gryffindor common room. she was there in a short while, probably because she ran half of the way, got yelled at by a professor and then continued to run when his back was turned. she could hear him yelling behind her but she just kept on running and giggling.

lily was giggling to herself when she walked into the gryffindor common room. she skipped halfway up the steps before she saw her brother, james, sleeping on the couch nearby. she smiled to herself and ran down the steps and tackled him and ruffled his hair playfully. "wake up sleepy head, wake up!" she smiled and let her long reddish brown hair fall in james' face as she buried her face in his chest. she knew that she would get yelled at for waking him up but she would be able to get away with it just because she was lily and he was james.

[james sirius potter]

James was exhausted, he hadn't gotten much sleep the night before and the chance to completely pass out on one of the soft couches in the Gryffindor common room was just to good to pass up. Even if it left him wide open for all sorts of pranking. He didn't care, if someone pranked him, he would just prank them right back. He was so tired he didn't dream, not even the one where he's talking to his grandfather, asking him for advice. He really liked having those dreams, though they usually only talked about incredibly stupid stuff. Sometimes they had conversations about Lily, trying to think of ways to get her out of the Marauders. She was honestly the only reason he stayed, to protect her; he would never be able to leave her, even if he didn't necessarily believe in the cause and never did; even if he hated the fact that they used the Marauder's name in that way. He was doing it for Lily.
He was woken up suddenly by something crashing into him, hard. That something, on further inspection, was none other than Lily "What the bloody-hell? he said startled, before looking down at his sister, who was burying her face into his chest. That sight alone was enough to be able to make him forget that he should have been really annoyed at her for waking him up like that. He petted her head "Hey there, little sister." he said with a yawn. Stretching, he sat up, letting Lily sit on his lap "What've you been up to?" he asked, he hadn't seen her all day; which was a little strange. They usually saw each other at breakfast at least. He wondered what she had been doing all day.

[lily luna potter]

lily frowned for a moment, "oh? did i hurt you? i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i didn't mean to." it was so easy for lily to change from happy and giggly to sad and just plain sad. lily sat on james' lap and ran her hand through her hair. she remembered when they were real little and her father would let her sit on his lap but soon that changed because she got too big and heavy to be on his lap. lily really missed being little and young, she's still little and young but it's not the same. young as in about four years old. the age when you can get away with just about anything. she still can, only because she's the youngest.

"well i was studying and finishing my essays all day in the library. it was very boring, i thought that i was going to die. i was going to go and take a nap but then i saw you and i thought to myself 'what would be the most annoying way to wake up my dear brother?' and yeah, so i did. was it annoy enough for ya?" lily loved irritating james to the point that he explodes. she knows her boundaries, though. she won't push his buttons that much. "lemme guess, you've been sleeping all day, am i right?"

[james sirius potter]

"you? Hurt me? pshh, like that could even happen." James said with a chuckle, she wasn't really big enough to hurt him too much much. Though his chest was a little sore from her crashing into him.
He just sat there, still petting his sisters hair as she told him about having to study all day and how she him sleeping on the couch and decided to annoy him, he was glad she did. Though she could bug the heck out of him, feelings of adoration always outweighed the feeling of annoyance"Oh? taking after your dear older brother now, I see? But you have to know that no one can be quite as annoying as I can. I am simply the best there is." he said with a satisfied smirk "Anyway it sounds like you've been busy. Let me guess you had to catch up in your classes because of all the crazy snogging you do when you're supposed to be doing your homework?" he said jokingly. He knew his sister didn't date, James made sure of that. He didn't want her to get hurt and the best way to do that was to not give anyone the power to hurt her. James knew that he couldn't stop her from dating forever, but one rule would always stand. If anyone hurt Lily, James would make the pay.