Her arm went around his shoulders immediately at feeling his head against her shoulder, and Lily pushed her face into the crown of his head, breathing in the smell of his hair. "That's good," she murmured. "I'm glad." So maybe it wouldn't be terrible of her to give him the second---no, no, she wasn't going to do that, she had to scold herself again. That last vial was only with her in the case that he really needed it again; in case Sirius doesn't come back. Those had been the unspoken words between the two women as Alice left her that morning. Both of them knew well that if they couldn't find Sirius, if he was killed or he just never returned, that James was going to need a lot more than a sedative to help him.
But Lily didn't like to think about that possibility, even as the days wore on and the reality of it all got harder and harder to avoid. She had to keep trying to keep her mind off of it and stay optimistic about it all, because she was pretty sure that if she let James see her give up, it could be the last straw for him. If Sirius was still alive, he needed James looking for him, and to keep James looking for him, Lily was ready to do everything that she could to get him to keep believing.
"I went out grocery shopping today," she spoke again, determined to bring up the small talk in hopes of getting his mind off whatever places it was wandering. Lily didn't buy his positive act when he was actually doing a half-decent job at it, much less now. "I bought stuff to make a cake--chocolate with strawberries, yeah? I was going to make it later this week, maybe Saturday."
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