Written for I never challenge. It's a James/Lily fic, sort of romance, and a two or three shot. Hope you enjoy it, so R and R.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter series, or any of its characters, or places, or anything at all. If I did, I probably would be publishing this stuff, not just writing fanfiction.
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James Potter was not someone you mess with. Especially not with pink hopping bunnies following him everywhere. James had tried everything to get rid of them, to petrify them, anything to get rid of them, but nothing worked. Not a single damned spell.
James grumbled furiously as he stomped to his so called friends.
"Did any of you do this?!" He shouted at them, pointing at the singing, hopping, and very annoying bunnies.
Sirius looked at the pink bunnies and laughed. "No, not me, but whoever did that is a genius!"
Remus looked at the bunnies. "No, James, but have you tried vanishing them?"
"Yeah, I have, but none of the spells work!" James said.
Peter looked oddly at the little bunnies. "Have you asked Severus?"
James gritted his teeth. "Severus! Of course!"
He looked around the courtyard and found Severus and Lily sitting under a tree, probably studying. He marched to them.
"Severus you little twit!" James yelled.
Severus looked up from his book and looked at James, "And what are you falsely accusing me of this time, Potter?"
"You. Did. This!" James said, pointing to the bunnies.
Severus had an amused look on his face. "Potter, I assure you I had took no part in this practical joke, however, the mastermind of this is a genius."
James gritted his teeth and took out his wand, he pointed it at Severus.
Lily stood up. "Woah there, Potter. Severus didn't do it, and if he did, which I'm not saying he did, are you sure cursing him would make him remove those cute little bunnies?"
James gave Lily a death glare. "If you're so smart, then who did it?"
Lily frowned. "I did, of course. Someone had to keep your big ego in check once in a while."
James pointed the wand to Lily, instead.
"And are you sure that pointing that wand to me will make me remove the curse?" Lily asked, a little smirk forming in the corner of her mouth.
James lowered her wand. "Watch what you do, Evans, someday it might actually hit you back a hundred fold."
James turned around.
"Why not now? Are you too afraid? Little Potter's too scared to get his nails dirty?" Lily said.
James turned around again, to face Lily. James walked over to Lily.
"Shut it. Mudblood." James said.
"And he drops the M word. How absolutely frightening, Potter. Calling me names, and all." Lily said.
James clenched his fists. "Remove the bunnies now, Evans, or you'll regret it."
"And what'll you do, Potter?" Lily asked, taking her wand out, pointing it at James. "I'm ready to fight against whatever you have."
James took his wand out. He pointed it at Lily. "Are you sure, mudblood?"
"He's not worth it, Lily." Severus said.
By now, a group, or more, of students were crowding around them, behind James was Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"No, Sev, you're not going to stop me from jinxing Potter this time." Lily said.
James smirked, "Don't worry, Evans, I'm not going to hurt you too much."
Lily squinted her eyes. She was about to cast a spell, when, an overly plump potions teacher had found them.
"Miss Evans! Mister Potter!" Slughorn shouted.
Lily put her wand back in her pocket.
James twirled his wand, then put his wand back.
"What was that all about, Miss Evans?" Slughorn ask, showing his slight favoritism.
"Sorry, Professor, James here, was threatening me, and I had no choice but to pursue my only self-defense." Lily said.
James smirked. "James?"
"Yes, James is your name, after all." Lily said, still angry at the said person.
"Well, then, Miss Evans, I believe we should also hear Mr. Potter's side of the story." Slughorn said.
"Sir, she jinxed me! See these little bunnies?" James said.
"They are overly cute, but have you any proof that Miss Evans did it?" Slughorn asked.
"She told me she did it!" James said. "And she was about to cast the first spell."
Slughorn frowned. "Well, I'm afraid I have to punish both of you. 10 points from Gryffindor, and detention, both of you, tomorrow after classes." Slughorn said. He cast a spell at the bunnies and they all vanished.
"But!" Both of them simultaneously said.
"No buts, Ms. Evans, Mr. Potter." Slughorn said.
He walked away.
"I supposed your pleased, Potter, getting me detention like that." Lily sneered at him.
James snorted. "Do you think I'm happy at all? He's taking my Friday afternoon! But I slightly am amused by breaking your spotless record."
"And just for that, Potter-" Lily tried to said, but was cut-off by Severus grabbing her wrists and telling her to stop it.
Lily nodded, picked up her books, then turned around.
James walked back to his friends.
"Stupid mudblood." James muttered.
"She's not as half as bad as you make her out to be, James." Sirius said.
James crossed his arms and gave Sirius a threatening glare.
Sirius grinned. "For one, she's hot."
"Hot? Hot?! Are you out of your mind, Sirius?" James said, spite in his voice.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Come on, James, I don't get why you're even angry at her. You've been to detention on a Friday afternoon a million times."
"Yeah, but!"
"I think you're just mad at her. Mad at her for not falling for you." Sirius said.
James scoffed. "No way, Sirius."
Sirius grinned, he put his arms over James's shoulders. "James that may not be the reason, but it's not the detention that's bugging you."
James cracked his knuckles. "Then what is?"
"The fact that she, a mudblood, could make you fall for her." Remus said.
"Remus, I could just die here and now if that was real, you know?" James said, pointing to the ground.
Sirius smirked. "Sorry, James, but we can read you, read you well."
"Oh come on, you all know that I have no interest in that waste of good magic," James said, "Besides, she couldn't even beat me in anything."
"Except for potions, charms, transfiguration, astronomy, well, mostly everything."
James snapped his fingers. "Bugger off. I'm not interested in hearing about her, thank you very much."
He stomped away, "I don't know why I'm even friends with you guys!"
He stomped to the only place where his friends could never ever find him. Never ever never. The library.
He walked inside the library and greeted the librarian.
"Mr. Potter? What did you want?"
James frowned. "I'm here. To read, or something like that."
"Read? Are you sure your fine, Mr. Potter?"
James was annoyed, yet he answered. "Yes, I'm absolutely fine."
The librarian laughed. "Alright then, Mr. Potter, read on."
James walked to the farthest, darkest, and most secluded area of the library. He grabbed a book from the shelf, the only good book that he liked was Tales of Beedle and the Bard. He grabbed it, sat down and started reading it.
After a few minutes, he got bored of the book and put it back on the shelf. He scanned the shelf, he took out a few books, and read the back. After a few more dozen books, he saw one that he might actually like. Hardy Boys.
So he read it. One book, two books, three books, four books. He had already spent 3 hours in the library. He flipped the page, read the first few sentences, then heard a giggle behind him. He turned around. His face was directly in front of Lily's. It was a few inches away, yes, but it was too close for comfort. Lily walked backwards a few steps.
"What the? Evans!" James shouted.
Lily smiled. "Sorry, I was reading over your shoulder."
James blinked. "Can you not be like any normal person? You know, reading, not on a person's shoulder."
"Well, I'm not normal. I'm a witch, remember?" Lily said.
James rolled his eyes. "Why are you even talking to me?"
"Because I want to." Lily said.
James stared at her oddly. "Your hair's tied."
"And so?" Lily asked.
"I don't know. I'm just not used to seeing it tied." James said.
Lily laughed, she removed the red hair scrunchy. "So you prefer it like this?"
James raised an eyebrow. "Yep. Classis red hair out in the wind."
Lily smirked. "Hand me one of those books."
"No." James said, he turned back to his reading.
Lily moved forward and leaned her head, so that it was a few inches beside James, no not inches, centimeters. James was getting uncomfortable. Any man would. Red soft silky hair falling down his shoulders, soft warm skin almost touching his own.
"You think Frank'll catch the murderer?" Lily asked.
James shut the book. "Why are you here? Why aren't you with your precious Snivelly?"
"Because he's somewhere else. I don't know where, I've been searching for him for an hour before I searched here, saw you, saw what you were reading, bet myself how long before you'd scream and storm out of here." Lily said.
"Aw… I'll lead the lost puppy back to its owner." James said.
Lily scoffed, "And what do you mean by that?"
"I'll help you search for Snivelly, just to get you off my back." James said.
Lily rolled her eyes and nodded. "Fine."
James placed all the books back. He led Lily out of the library. They walked to the Transfiguration courtyard.
He saw Severus, unfortunately, with Severus was his so called friends.
"Looks like your Snivelly is there." James said, pointing to Severus. "Don't cal-"
"Hey Sev!" Lily shouted. Severus, Remus, Sirius and Peter looked at their direction.
James face-palmed. "I told you not to call them."
Lily shrugged.
The four men walked to them.
"Damn." James muttered.
"Prongs!" Sirius shouted.
"Hello, Sirius." James said.
"Where were you?" Sirius asked.
"I was in the library. Reading." James said.
"Yeah, and I was letting Snivelly torture me." Sirius said mockingly.
James walked over to his "best friend", and grabbed his ear, he twisted it.
"Ow!"
"Don't you believe that I would read in the library?" James asked.
"You could. But not for three hours." Remus said.
James shrugged. "Well, I did."
"Prove it." Sirius said.
"Oi, mudblood, what was I doing?" James asked.
Lily narrowed her eyes. "Believe it or not, he was reading Hardy Boys, and I was sneaking up on him."
"Yes, as she said it, except she wasn't sneaking up on me, she was reading over my shoulder." James said.
"Did the apocalypse just begin?" Sirius asked.
James rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, let's go, James." Sirius said.
"Wait. I have to ask mudblood something."
Sirius nodded.
"In wizard money, how much am I worth, Evans?" James asked.
"Half a knut. If they included your wand." Lily said.
James smirked. "Very good. Well, let's go then, Sirius."
Sirius nodded, the four guys walked to the lake.
"What was that about?" Sirius asked.
"Evans, she made me feel uncomfortable in the library." James said.
"Why?"
"She was – never mind, you don't need to know." James said.
He picked up a stone and threw it at the lake.
Sirius smirked. "I think you should ask her out."
"I don't want to. And even if I did, there's one percent she'll go out with me."
Sirius grinned. "Come on, James, try."
"I don't want to." James said. "She belongs with her precious Snivelly."
"Oh. Then hex Snivelly and ask her out." Sirius said.
James pushed his best friend. "Sure."
They walked to the Transfiguration courtyard. James spotted Lily and Severus.
"Hi mudblood. Hi Snivelly." James said.
Lily sighed. "If you're going to try and mess with us, Potter, just get away."
"I'm not going to try and mess with you. I'm going to mess with you." James said.
Lily looked up at him. "Look, Potter, just get the hell out of here."
James leaned forward and pouted. "No can do, Evans."
Lily looked up and scoffed. She pushed him away.
James smirked. "Evans, just wanted to ask you a question."
"What stupid question is it this time, Potter?" Lily asked.
"Oh, just an easy one, just a yes or yes question." James said.
"No, I will not go out with you." Lily said.
"I haven't even asked!"
"What were you about to ask?" Lily asked.
"Will you go out with me?"
"Look, Potter, no, no, no, no, no, how many more times?"
"50 before I even consider giving up." James said.
Lily kicked him. "Get away, go chase ickle first-years, go prank some Slytherins, go annoy some hufflepuffs, I don't care. Just get away. Please?"
"No, Evans, I won't go away until you agree." James said.
Lily shot him a death look. "I'll have to be stuck with you for an hour, isn't that already bad enough?"
James laughed. "Fine, then, Evans. It's a date."
Sirius and James walked away. While Lily was left sitting with a dumbstruck look.
"Did you just agree to what I think you agreed to?" Severus asked.
"You know, Sev, I'm beginning to really want to kill that Potter." Lily said.
"Haven't you already?" Severus asked, shaking his head.
Lily laughed. "Yeah, Sev, what time is it?"
"Six or seven, I think." Severus said.
"Yeah, thanks, don't you think we should be going inside now?"
Severus smiled. "Yeah, sure."
They walked to the castle. Lily waved a goodbye to Severus and went to the Gryffindor table. She sat at the farthest possible seat from the marauders.
A few minutes later, she heard James's voice.
"Move, Liam, or I'll personally make sure that you never make another damned potion." James said.
Lily froze. Wasn't Liam sitting next to her?
"Oh, and ask the guy in front of you to move." James said.
Lily groaned and rested her head on the table. She heard a person standing up, walking away, no, two people, and two more people sitting down.
"Get away from me, James." Lily muttered, her head was still on the table.
"Come on, Evans, sit up properly." James said.
Lily sat up properly and pinched James's arm. She pinched it hard, very hard. "Look, Potter, get out of here, and tell your friend to do the same."
"I won't budge, Doll." Sirius said.
Lily shot him a death glare. "Did you tell him?"
"No. You told me not to." Sirius said, smirking.
"Whatever. You two, get away from me." Lily said.
James looked confused. "What are you two talking about?"
"Oh, I went with a date with her last week. Snogged her at top of that." Sirius said.
Lily shot him a death glare. "You promised not to tell."
"Yeah, I did, but since when did I keep promises?"
"You'll pay, Black." Lily said.
"I'm sure I will." Sirius said, "But, you might want to do something else, I've tons of cash with me."
Lily sneered at him.
"You told me you never-"
"I told you I don't use spearmint toothpaste, I do." Sirius said.
"You told me nothing of the sort." James said.
Sirius snorted. "Yeah, probably not," He stopped. "Why are you so angry?"
"This is my territory, mate. MY TERRITORY." James said.
"Hey, hey, since when was I your territory?" Lily asked, frustration in her voice.
Sirius smiled. "Sorry, James, should have told you, but I promised the lady. My promises generally last for a week."
Lily rolled her eyes. She saw the food appear, and the staff go to the table. She waited for Dumbledore to tell them that they could eat. Then she grabbed as much food as she could.
"Never knew you had that kind of appetite, Evans." James said.
"Of course not. All you know is how handsome you are." Lily said, then frowning.
"So you admit I'm handsome?" James asked.
"No, I admit that you think you're handsome." Lily said.
"That's the same." James said.
"No, it's not, you twit." Lily said.
After everyone finished their meal, the plates were replaced and the food was replaced with desert.
Lily ate a piece of pie. Two pieces of pie. Three pieces of pie. After her third, she saw that there was one last piece. It looked like Sirius saw it too. Lily grabbed for the pie, Sirius grabbed for the pie. Sirius got the pie.
"Damn it!" Lily said. She gave Sirius a death glare. Sirius stuck a tongue out at her.
Lily looked at the other pie plates. Finished. She swore under her breath. She looked at James's plate. It was still untouched, except for a fork slice or two.
She looked at the pie, then at James. It looked as if he was staring at her for the past 20 minutes.
"Are you going to finish that?" Lily asked.
James returned to earth from his staring. "Oh. Uh. No, have it." He handed the plate to Lily.
Lily eagerly grabbed the plate and started eating the pie. She stuck a tongue out at Sirius.
Sirius smirked. "That's James's pie you know. It could contain anything, love potions, poison, anything. Anything at all."
"It's pie. Pie is good." Lily said, harboring another bite from the pie.
James chuckled.
"Look, Potter, stop staring at me, it's making me feel uncomfortable and paranoid." Lily said.
But James never followed orders.
Lily finished her pie and frowned. She took a drink of pumpkin juice.
James broke his gaze and looked at the table. "Hey! Where'd my pie go?"
Sirius laughed. Lily snorted.
"Are you serious?" Lily asked.
"No, I'm Sirius." Sirius said.
Lily shot him a death glare. He simply smiled at her.
James frowned. "I'm serious."
"You were staring at Evans, she asked if you were going to finish your pie, you said no and handed it to her, then she ate it." Sirius said, amused.
James frowned. "I certainly don't remember."
"Aw… poor, poor you. Thanks for the pie, anyways." Lily said.
James frowned. "You've got pumpkin juice on your face."
Lily wiped her face. "Anyways, bye. See you tomorrow, I guess."
Lily walked to the Gryffindor common room.
"You don't like Evans, James. You absolutely love her." Sirius said.
James snorted. "No, I don't." He stopped. "There was something in her hair that caught my eye."
"Which is?"
"A Slytherin pin. With green snakes and all, and the word Slytherin." James said.
"Probably from Snivelly." Sirius said.
James stood up and followed Lily. Sirius followed him, followed by Remus, then Peter.
"Hey, Evans, can I see that hair pin?" James asked.
Lily turned around. "I know what you're thinking. It's a gift from Sev."
"I want to see it, it could be from the devil incarnate himself and I wouldn't care." James said.
"No." Lily said.
"Please, there's something about it. I just want to take a quick look at it." James said.
Lily walked over to him. She removed the hair pin. "Here, have fun wrecking my favorite accessory."
James took the hair pin and examined it. He handed it back to Lily.
"You know, Evans, that hair pin, was directly from Slytherin." James said.
"I know." Lily said. "Probably worth a lot."
"So, you just accepted something like this?"
"He insisted." Lily said. She put it back on. "And I value it very much."
"Even more than a gift from me?" James asked.
"Yes, Potter, even more than a gift from you." Lily mockingly said.
"Even if it was a Gryffindor hei-"
"Just stop talking to me, Potter." Lily said.
James frowned and put his hand over Lily's shoulder, causing her to shudder.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked." James said.
"Don't be, Potter, you're just looking for an excuse to touch me." Lily said.
James pulled his hand away.
Lily smirked. "Good night, Potter. Good night, Black. Good night, Remus. And you too, Peter. See all you sods tomorrow."
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O.K. So I actually liked writing this, :P, yeah so review please.